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...disease kills up to 80% of its victims, the Public Health Service has developed a vaccine for prevention and a serum for treatment (TIME, June 30, 1941), which cuts the death rate to a little less than 4%. Since all vaccine is reserved for people who must work in heavily infected woods, the Public Health Service advises others to de-tick themselves every few hours by using tweezers or paper to pick the ticks off-thus keeping the germs (if any) off the hands. The Army's Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk reports that sulfur dusted into shoes...
...certain kind of streptococci in brains and spinal fluid of animal and human poliomyelitis victims; 2) finds the same germs in milk, water and the throats of about 33% of well people during polio epidemics; 3) finds very few of the germs between epidemics; 4) makes a streptococcus serum that protects animals from poliomyelitis...
...stable preparation of serum albumin (TIME, Jan. 31), which is especially useful in shock. It is five times as powerful as plasma in drawing blood fluid back from the tissues into the blood stream. (Leakage of blood fluid into the tissues, with consequent reduction of blood volume and lowered blood pressure, are characteristics of shock...
Seven commercial houses under Navy contract use Dr. Cohn's methods to extract serum albumin and other blood components. Since Dr. Cohn's laboratory does war work, the outside door is locked, the number of white-garbed assistants secret. So is most of the work being done within...
...Seventeen young women suffered from severe acne associated with menstrual disorders. After injections of pregnant-mare serum (a blood extract rich in pituitary hormone), all but three of them developed clear skins, normal menses. Doctors are leary of sex-hormone treatment for acne-it has been "disappointing" in the past -but Drs. Charles Howard Birnberg and Charles Robert Rein of New York City believe that pregnant mare's serum is effective for this type of acne in women. They make no mention of men with acne...