Word: serums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Modestly, Bacteriologist James C. Small of the Philadelphia General Hospital told Director Wilmer Krusen of the Philadelphia Public Health Department that he had isolated a new, minute organism (Streptococcus cardioarthritidis) from the blood of rheumatic patients and had been able to build a serum that cured a few cases of rheumatism. Director Krusen was delighted, for the cause of rheumatism (rheumatic fever) is obscure. Doctors know as little about it as they do about cancer. Rheumatism does not kill so many people as does cancer. Yet it is responsible for one-fourth of all heart disease deaths...
...lovers approached nervously with their pets. Each would have to receive a license tag or the untagged dog would be exterminated when caught. "Advanced" Mexican law givers had tied a hypodermic syringe full of anti-rabies serum to the tail of their...
...honor Pasteur Institutes have been established over the whole world. The latest is at Bangkok, where snake serum is being developed. There was even a play written last year to praise his life...
...diseases may be prevented and cured by injecting into the patient an attenuated solution of the very germ that caused the disease. This is immunity, and was first applied with scientific precision to humans by Louis Pasteur in the 1880's. With hydrophobia, this mean giving doses of serum as soon as possible after the bite. Pasteur prevented hundreds of horrible deaths from this disease...
...required that all dogs imported into the country be quarantined for six months. It had not a single case of rabies in dogs or any other animals from 1902 until the World War when aviators carried their pets above and over quarantine. Another preventive is the use of prophylactic serum for animals, manufactured by most of the biological chemical houses. The Louisville authorities would like either or both of these preventives applied to their district. But they are blocked, seemingly, by a general public apathy...