Word: serums
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their command Drs. Thalhimer & Levinson have a supply of serum taken from the blood of Chicagoans recently recovered from scarlet fever. This serum ordinarily is used in the treatment of severe attacks of scarlet fever. Drs. Thalhimer & Levinson injected some into patients dying of Streptococcus haemolyticus infection. Only one out of five thus treated died. If scarlet fever serum is not available, the Chicago doctors recommend transfusion of whole blood from a suitable donor who has recently recovered from scarlet fever...
...prediction came true only two years ago when Dr. Harvey Brinton Stone of Johns Hopkins transplanted thyroid tissue from one patient to another. Theretofore all tissue transplants either invalided the patient or died after doing only temporary good. Dr. Stone succeeded because he first soaked the thyroid tissue in serum from the blood of the patient who was to receive it (TIME. Dec. 18, 1933). By doing that Dr. Stone followed fundamental procedures developed by Dr. Carrel at the Rockefeller Institute...
Fall River, Mass.: ''Young infantile paralysis victims prepared to draw lots today to determine who should be the first to receive serum which may save their lives. . . . The opening of schools has been postponed...
...nourish those organs, they circulated growth-activating fluids which Dr. Lillian Eloise Baker of the Rockefeller Institute supplied them, containing blood serum, insulin, thyroxine, vitamin A, vitamin C, etc. The ''lungs'' of the apparatus refreshed the "blood" with a steady injection of air composed of 40% oxygen, 3% carbon dioxide, the balance nitrogen. The whole apparatus was kept at blood heat in an incubator, was rocked so that "blood" pulsed through the organ, almost exactly as in life...
...their collaboration Drs. Carrel & Lindbergh reported: "Changes in form and volume took place in the organs from day to day. Thyroid glands perfused with diluted serum were observed to decrease in size progressively. On the contrary, ovaries or thyroids perfused with a growth-promoting medium modified their form and grew rapidly. In five days, the weight of an ovary increased from 90 mg. to 284 mg." Simultaneously yellow spots which developed on the ovaries suggested that they, while attached to the glass heart, might actually have produced eggs. If so, laboratory technicians conceivably might some day fertilize and incubate such...