Word: serums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serum used experimentally in 5,000 cases of rheumatism at the New York University Medical School (Bellevue Hospital) has alleviated the malady in 80% of the cases, according to newspaper stories. Rheumatism, like asthma, grippe and a number of other maladies, is a popular name for a series of symptoms of wide variety. Almost any pain in the joints or muscles is dignified as "rheumatism," regardless of the cause. But of the reality of the disease no rheumatic is ever in doubt, and to such the news of a scientific treatment will be welcome, if confirmed...
...antibodies" produced by the injection of dead bacteria of the same disease. But the acid-fast germs are encased in or contain fatty cells called " lipoids," which resist digestion when injected into the body and thus generate no antibodies. Dreyer's idea is to pickle the serum consisting of dead tubercle bacilli in formalin, a solution of formaldehyde. This eats away the fatty cells of the tubercle bacillus, which can then be digested by the body juices, and calls forth a plentiful supply of the antibodies when injected. They in turn attack and destroy the living germs...
...Spahlinger treatment for tuberculosis (TiME, April 21) is still gaining adherents in Britain. Beyond the fact that it is a serum, little is known of its details, nor whether it resembles Dreyer's in principle. Spahlinger apparently objects to investigation until he can secure financial support. It is reported that the British Red Cross and the Ministry of Health may come...
...Wassermann's new serum (TiME, March 31) is not a method of immunization, like Dr. Dreyer's, but simply a blood test to determine the presence of active tuberculosis. Combined with a successful specific, it might cut the tuberculosis deathrate to the vanishing point...
...when it is realized that diseases of the heart now cause a larger number of fatalities than any other single type of illness. Not long ago tuberculosis and pneumonia led all the rest, but medical research has now found means of fighting these, with fresh air, with oxygen, with serum, and by other more technical means, until the number of deaths recorded from each has become less and less. But on the other hand the recent cardioscope is merely the continuation of the idea of other inventions dealing with surgery of the chest. The cardiograph--an instrument for recording heart...