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...patient has measles the doctor may be able to shorten its course or make it less severe by injecting: 1) blood serum from someone recently recovered from measles, or 2) an extract of human placenta...
...make it easy for Chicagoans to get such serums the late Samuel Deutsch, Chicago steelman, established a Serum Center at Michael Reese Hospital, which now stocks serums against infantile paralysis and scarlet fever as well as measles. But in all the U. S. there are only six similar serum centres-Manhattan, Los Angeles, Des Moines, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Detroit...
Last week Drs. Eugene Lindsay Opie and Jules Freund of Cornell University Medical College reported in the Journal of Experimental Medicine a harmless preventive which they described as just as effective as BCG. They simply killed tubercle bacilli by heat and added heated horse serum. This protects an inoculated individual for one or two years, long enough, noted the doctors, "to influence favorably the delicate balance between asymptomatic or latent infection and progressive manifest disease that is characteristic of human tuberculosis...
...streptococci, the great family of germs responsible for scarlet fever, septic sore throat, erysipelas, childbed fever. But no one ever saw the germ of measles. Therefore bacteriologists tossed the subject into that catchpot of medical conjecture labeled VIRUS. Only means of immunity which proved effective was hypodermic injection of serum from the blood of people convalescing from measles; or inoculations of the nasal secretions of measles victims in the first stage of the disease...
...some manner which Dr. Drinker still is trying to learn, destroys germs. If, as in an inflamed wound, it cannot reach invading germs the instant they touch the raw flesh, the germs swiftly get into the blood stream where the lymph can do no good and the blood serum must perform all the germicidal work by itself...