Word: serums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grand Canary (Fox). In show business "Canary" means soprano, but this picture is not about a musicomedienne. Its hero is another Hollywood reliable, the downhearted doctor. Harvey Leith (Warner Baxter) has invented an extraordinary serum in his London laboratory. When he administers it too late, three patients die and he is discredited as a quack. Morbidly discouraged, he boards ship for distant ports. At sea he meets Lady Mary Fielding (Madge Evans), returning to her husband in the Canary Islands...
...blood. His method is to break down the bovine hemoglobin, the substance in red blood cells which carries oxygen throughout the body. This cell-free hemoglobin Professor Amberson mixes with Ringer's solution, common table and other salts in distilled water resembling the constitution of blood serum. Cats perfused completely with Dr. Amberson's blood mixture have lived as long as 36 hours. Then they died because the cell-free hemoglobin changed to methemoglobin which cannot carry life-giving oxygen to suffocating body cells. One of Professor Amberson's problems, before such artificial blood can be widely...
...graduate study abroad, Dr. Williams joined the city's laboratory staff in 1895. One year later she made her first important contribution to preventive medicine - the discovery of a strain of diphtheria bacillus which produced an extremely virulent toxin. It made possible mass production of the anti-diphtheria serum which has nearly banished that dis ease from the world. Dog-bite victims once had to wait ten awful days to know if they had contracted rabies. In 1904, Dr. Williams and an Italian investigator discovered, simultaneously but independently, the bodies in the animal's nerve cells which apparently...
...statement to the CRIMSON yesterday, Dr. Paul H. Means '17, the Medical Adviser, announced that the Hygiene Department has a supply of placental extract on hand for inoculation against measles. This extract is a human preparation, so that there is no serum reaction, the only noticeable effect being a slight soreness of the arm. The extract, which is rich in anti-bodies, will prevent the disease if administered within four days after exposure, and will materially weaken the attack if given within six days...
...Kramer anti-poliomyelitis vaccine is a mixture of immune serum (from a person who has had an attack of the disease) and active infantile paralysis virus. The serum renders the virus harmless, and the product creates immunity in vaccinated monkeys. It is useless in treating an attack of poliomyelitis or curing the consequent paralysis, but seems likely to prove an authentic preventive...