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...sleeping, resting and relaxing satisfactorily; he had used a mild sedative only once since leaving the hospital; his temperature was normal, blood pressure stable, and general circulation excellent. Blood-clotting time remained satisfactory, and blood-sedimentation rate had declined to normal range. The white-corpuscle count and serum cholesterol were both normal. Weight and diet were carefully controlled and satisfactory...
...Moreover, why can't the student diagnose it himself? The doctor can be sure only after he has examined a blood smear. If he finds many cells of an abnormal type he has good evidence of the disease. A confirmatory tests consists of adding a small sample of the serum to a much larger amount of sheep's red blood cells. If the sheep's cells agglomerate the physician can be virtually positive that the patient has mononucleosis. Only these two tests can differentiate between "mono" and a common cold, and only a competent doctor can perform them...
Cutter Laboratories, born in the backroom of the late Edward Cutter's Fresno, Calif, pharmacy in 1897, is the second oldest pharmaceutical house in the country under continuous ownership and management (the oldest: Parke, Davis & Co.), and has a solid professional reputation. It pioneered commercial production of serum albumin (for shock and kidney infections), gamma globulin (the first anti-polio serum), triple vaccine (against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus), the Semple Rabies Vaccine (an improvement on the old Pasteur formula), and is the exclusive U.S. marketer of fibrinogen (which helps to clot blood) and bubonic plague vaccine...
...movie itself is a jumble of all the old show business plots, but then this is a huge gathering of all musicals. Glue for the mixture is a pleasing serum of Irving Berlin's tunes and a splashing does of technicolor. Ethel Merman is the film's biggest asset, launching into her songs with a driving enthusiasm that shames Dan Dailey, who is busy worrying about his errant showtime son, Donald. O'Connor hoofs and melodizes in his usual manner, but looks like the Soap-Box Derby Winner with a Cadillac when he romances with a healthier and heftier Marilyn...
...Louis Pillemer and a team of researchers at Cleveland's Western Reserve University make no hard claim to have found the final solution to the puzzle. They have isolated, from the blood serum of both man and animals, a protein that destroys bacteria and neutralizes viruses. Because of its powers, they have named it properdin (from the Latin perdere, to destroy). While the antibody proteins that the system develops after some diseases or inoculations (e.g., polio, diphtheria) are useful only against the organisms that cause the particular disease, properdin is not choosy: it destroys or neutralizes an extremely wide...