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...Chicago's hormone conference offered little new hope for arthritis sufferers, there was brighter news last week in Milwaukee, 80 miles farther north. There at a staff meeting at St. Mary's Hospital, Drs. Millard Tufts, S.B. Pessin and Tiber Greenwalt announced a new antiarthritic serum that can be extracted at any hospital from discarded afterbirths, i.e., placenta and umbilical cords...
Doctors have long noted that pregnancy relieves women suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. Blood serum taken from new mothers soon after delivery has even proved effective in treating the disease (TIME, Nov. 27). Rather than take blood from new mothers, Dr. Tufts decided to try something else. The same factor that prevents arthritis in pregnant women and infants (who never have arthritis), he reasoned, must lie in the blood of the placenta, gallons of which are thrown away every day in any obstetrical center...
...often caused people to break out in a mild rash. Occasionally it has caused more severe reactions. Last week, in the U.S. Armed Forces Medical Journal, a Navy medical officer warned sharply that the ill effects of penicillin are increasing in both number and gravity. Reactions like old-fashioned serum sickness,† he said, suggest that penicillin may act as such a strong sensitizing agent that a second course of treatment with it becomes impossible for a while...
...Which commonly resulted from horse and rabbit serum treatments for pneumonia...
...fluid part of the blood goes through more centrifuges and chilling processes. Out come a serum globulin (used to prevent or control measles), serum albumin (for treatment of shock), fibrinogen, thrombin and prothrombin - and more components of blood for which medical science has not yet found uses...