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...Charles H. Mayo of Rochester, Minn., at the opening ceremony, said: "We are going to conquer cancer and rid the world of it, regardless of the cost." He declared that he did not know whether the cure would be effected through a serum or radium. His predictions were evidently for the former, for he declared that medicine could cure the ills of the nation?Congress, morons, lunatics, Harry Thaw and newspaper headlines...
Horses. The "horse serum," in use heretofore, had been regarded by many as worse than the disease it was meant to cure. It is made by injecting pneumonia germs (called pneumococci) into the blood of a horse. The horse then develops in his blood a substance which aids in destroying or digesting these germs. This substance-the so-called "antibody"-is known to be carried in the serum, or "clear liquid" of the blood. The remedial method in using the "horse serum" was to inject a large quantity of highly diluted serum into the human patient. This serum generally brought...
...powder. Dr. Felton since the general influenza epidemic of 1918-19 has been working with a commission organized by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. in an attempt to find a remedy for influenza. Although he has not conquered influenza, he has found a serum for the most dreaded concomitant of that disease-the pneumonia which often put a fatal termination to a case of influenza...
...research work Dr. Felton took the unpurified serum as it was drawn from the blood of a horse. He filtered it, treated it electrically and chemically, tried always to extract rom it a pure solution of antibodies, ree from the injurious by-products that hitherto had rendered the horse serum nearly valueless. Eventually Dr. Felton found that when one part of the horse serum was mixed with ten parts water a white, fluffy precipitate appeared. He collected this precipitate, purified it, found that it dried into a white crystalline powder which he suspected contained the antibodies in highly concentrated form...
...Park: "I regard the prediction hat the new serum will cure 25% to 50% of the cases as too optimistic. If it cures 10% I shall still consider Dr. Felton's work a great advance in medical science. It is not, however, 'a new discovery'; it is simply purifying and condensing of the old serum. The new serum probably will be available to general practitioners in about a month...