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...short, Scientist Kahn had developed the rifle. When he mixed the blood fluid from a syphilis patient with a substance prepared from fatty beef heart, the mixture quickly clouded and a deposit settled in the bottom of the test tube; with blood serum from a healthy individual, the clear fluid stayed clear. Thus was born the first simple and effective serum test for syphilis, and one of those in widest use today.* In popular lingo, Kahn tests are often called Wassermanns. Kahn, who took no cash for his discovery, lets the credit go too. Says...
...cells -i.e., cancer-results. In some unspecified way, Durovic "stimulated" the reticulo-endothelial system of horses-a group of cells in the liver, spleen, bone marrow and lymphatic tissue which is believed to have some connection with the disease-fighting capacities of the body. Then, from the blood serum of the horses, Durovic extracted and purified a white powder which he believes to contain the regulator substance. He named it Krebiozen, a Greek derivative meaning "creator of biological force...
...Truth serum" doesn't necessarily make people blurt out the truth. In the current American Journal of Psychiatry, Professor Frederick C. Redlich of Yale University Medical School tells how he and his associates arrived at that conclusion after an experimental sampling of students and professional people, some normal, some slightly neurotic...
Blood, for the most part, is a mixture of white cells, red cells and fluid serum. Leukemia, an invariably fatal form of cancer, is a disease in which the patient's blood becomes overloaded with certain types of white cells. For 100 years or more, doctors have accepted the theory that leukemia is caused by an unknown factor which goads the body into riotous overproduction of white cells. Last week, researchers at the University of California offered a new explanation...
...company with his colleagues, Dr. Tufts refined from placenta blood some serum which he called PBS, and injected 20 cc. into the arm of a patient who had suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis for more than ten years. After three injections she reported, "My pain and swelling began to disappear and I could notice the lump on my wrist start to go down . . . It's wonderful...