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Volunteers from varsity and House football teams, crew and track squads, and the Army R.O.T.C. unit will serve as "guinea pigs" in tests of tetanus toxoid serum...
...poker game in which a man draws four aces, and a scene on board a boat in which a mad doctor is about to inject Mitchum with some memory-killing serum. It's got a murdered government agent and a torch song by the heroine. It's got all these ingredients and something more...
...huge one. There are in the U.S., he estimates, about 10 million allergy victims; about 2,000,000 have asthma, up to 7,000,000 have hay fever and the rest an assortment of hives, eczema, sinus disorders, reactions to foods, allergic headaches, contact allergies such as ivy poisoning, serum sickness and sensitivity to drugs...
...work even when he is asleep. Often he will wake in the middle of the night, switch on a light and jot down a clue that has just occurred to him. The most promising clue that has occurred to Dr. Kahn's wakeful brain during 25 years of serum tests is that any human blood, healthy or diseased, will produce its own distinctive pattern of reactions when mixed with particular concentrations of beefheart extract. (Syphilitic serum happens to produce a strong reaction with a concentration chosen for the purpose...
...Kahn is going on to tackle other diseases. He even hopes that an unusual blood-serum reaction might signal the approach of cancer before a detectable growth has formed. But Dr. Kahn admits that it may take 50 years for his work to be fully translated into cures. And cures, says he, are all that count...