Word: serums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public wet and shivering, cold and snuffling, waiting for a reluctant Spring, came the news that a "new pneumonia serum" had been discovered by one Dr. Lloyd B. Felton, of the Harvard Medical School...
Horses. The "horse serum," in use heretofore, had been regarded by many as worse than the disease it was meant to cure. It is made by injecting pneumonia germs (called pneumococci) into the blood of a horse. The horse then develops in his blood a substance which aids in destroying or digesting these germs. This substance-the so-called "antibody"-is known to be carried in the serum, or "clear liquid" of the blood. The remedial method in using the "horse serum" was to inject a large quantity of highly diluted serum into the human patient. This serum generally brought...
...Felton has found a method of precipitating and concentrating the antibodies in anti-pneumococcus serum. This concentrated solution has been used with encouraging results in about 60 cases at the Boston City Hospital and in about 60 more in hospitals in New York and Brooklyn. While it is impossible to estimate the exact value of the discovery, even the most skeptical of those familiar with Dr. Felton's work have declared that at least 35 percent, and possibly 50 percent reduction in the pneumonia mortality rate is assured...
...Weech, of the Johns Hopkins University, has found that the serum taken from the blood of those who have recovered from chicken pox, if injected into susceptible children, seems to prevent their catching the disease. Nine infants, who had been exposed to the disease, were given injections of the serum from one to six days after exposure. Eight of them did not contract the disease...
This epitomizes the work of Professor Gaetano Fichera, upon which he has lavished a great part of his life and most of his private fortune, at Pavia, Italy. His discovery of the artificial serum he will announce at the meeting of the Medical Section of the League of Nations, at Rome, next month...