Word: serums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...test a little of the child's blood serum is injected into a healthy mouse. Then the mouse receives a little of Dr. Brodie's infected filtrate. If the child is immune, nothing will happen to the mouse. But, wrote Dr. Brodie in Science last week, if the child is susceptible to infantile paralysis, after two days "the clinical picture in the mouse is quite acute. It begins with irritability, jumpiness, ruffled hair and goes on to ataxia [dragging] of the hind legs, humped back, convulsions, circular movements, twisting of the head and sometimes ptosis [drooping...
According to those authorities, the simplest divisions of human blood types are those discovered in 1900 by Dr. Karl Landsteiner of the Rockefeller Institute. Dr. Landsteiner first found that, when he mixed the red cells of one person with the blood serum of another, occasionally the red cells agglutinated. Cause of the occasional clumping, he found, was an antibody in the serum which was antipathetic to an agglutinogen in the red cells. Further research disclosed two agglutinogens, A and B. A person's red cells might contain A or B, or both (AB) or neither (O). Thus, according...
Died. Professor John James Rickard MacLeod, 58, onetime Associate Dean of the Medical School of the University of Toronto where, with Sir Frederick Banting, he discovered insulin (pancreas serum, for treating diabetes) which won them the 1923 Nobel Prize in medicine; in Aberdeen, Scotland, at whose University he had been Regius Professor of Physiology since...
Black Widow Serum...
...wish to correct a very serious error in your article in this week's TIME [Dec. 3] concerning antiserum against black widow spider venom. The serum has not been used on any human cases, nor would I sanction its use as so far developed. It is highly potent in the rat, 1/10 cubic centimeter (about two drops) will completely protect rats against eight average lethal doses when given immediately, and 1 cubic centimeter given three and one-half hours later will give prompt recovery against the same dose...