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While Harvard's serum fared well against the Tiger, the bottom of the barrel team which Coach Jim Nuland had to field was outclassed all the way. Last week at Cambridge, a strong Crimson team had been definitely upset by the Tigers...
...Doctors in Philadelphia were told by visiting medical brass that their big job would be to decide which atomic victims were worth treating with scarce blood serum, etc., and which were not. Best Army opinion: anybody caught within a mile of the blast would probably...
...enzyme called hyaluronidase, which exists in the testes, eyes, spleen, skin. He believed that it exists in large amounts in most cancers. He devised a urine test: the enzyme is extracted from the urine with ether, then mixed with a solution of fresh umbilical cord and rabbit serum. Two weeks ago, in the first issue of the new South Dakota Journal of Medicine and Pharmacy, he reported his findings: if the solution remains clear, the patient has the enzyme in his body in larger than normal amounts-and may have cancer. If the solution becomes cloudy, the patient is free...
...brother "a big-bellied coward." Earl was a gravel-voiced, bitin', scratchin' man. He once nearly bit an antagonist's finger off. On another occasion, he sank his teeth so deep in the neck of a state representative that the legislator took a shot of lockjaw serum...
...still too early to talk about curing or preventing colds-even the type of common cold caused by V14A. Dr. Topping (who developed the first effective serum for Rocky Mountain spotted fever in 1940) would say only that a vaccine is "a possibility, not a probability." (It took ten years to develop a flu vaccine after the flu virus was isolated in 1933.) As a final gloomy thought, Dr. Topping feared that even if a vaccine is developed, it will give immunity for only a very short time, and, of course, against only one type of cold...