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Recent reports on Professor Bogomoletz' ACS serum for improving tissue resistance and prolonging life (TIME, Jan. 17) left many questions (on dosage, duration of treatment, etc.) unanswered. From Moscow last week came some of the answers...
...Best animal for serum experiments is the rabbit. Serum for the purpose is made by inoculating rams with rabbit spleen and marrow cells, making an extract from their blood...
Research to find a substitute for human plasma does not stop with beef blood. Some substitutes that work: coconut milk, casein, isinglass (fish gelatin), pectin. But doctors still reserve their real enthusiasm for safe human plasma or human serum albumin...
...Serum albumin is extracted from blood plasma by a newly perfected process. The albumin goes six times as far as an equivalent amount of plasma, is now being made for use by para troopers, small naval units, other troops with little room for luggage...
...same Bulletin Commander Melvin Dewey Abbott and Lieut. John Randolph Gepfert report using medicated human blood plasma as a burn dressing. They got the idea from the light yellow blood serum which exudes from any deep burn and acts as a soothing, protective coating. They mixed blood plasma with a little sulfanilamide and some gum tragacanth to make a paste, used it on twelve second-degree burns. "The results were very definitely better than those obtained by the use of any one of the many methods in vogue during the past two years...