Word: serums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like many other "cures," the new remedy has met with much skepticism among the medical profession. American physicians, commenting on the reports, say the results claimed are unbelievably good. They demand detailed scientific tests. At Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan, a serum has been developed during the last three years which has cut the pneumonia deathrate from 30% to 15%, according to Dr. Russell L. Cecil. Many other investigators have been working on pneumonia remedies, mostly of a serological nature. Dr. Tomarkin's cure merits favorable consideration, at least, from the fact that it is vouched for by Professor Ettore Marchiafava...
...uses chimpanzees, but does not transplant their glands. The substance which brings on senility in humans, he says, is "cholin" (a toxic crystalline base allied to the bile). The chimpanzees are "decholinized" by a special process. They have not been penalized by the vices of civilization. Injections of this serum are claimed to restore the conditions of normal youth in the human body. In the near future, says Dr. Held, an age of 100 years will be considered mere infancy...
Professor Cabrilovitch, Russian emigre working in Paris, has developed a serum called phagolysin based on Koch's tuberculin formula, which is administered by mouth and is described as setting up an effective resistance to the tubercle bacillus. It is being used in the open-air schools for tuberculous children...
...Madrid surgeon, Torras Talarn, has developed a serum which saved a middle-aged man and a young girl in the last stages of tuberculosis. All the tuberculous patients in a Barcelona hospital will be given the treatment...
...Charles Robert Richet (1850-), French, professor of physiology, University of Paris, authority on anaphylaxis and serum therapy...