Word: serums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan scientists announced last week that they had developed a horse serum useful against infantile paralysis. Heretofore the best treatment for the disease has been "convalescent serum" taken from a person who has recently recovered from infantile paralysis. Convalescent serum has been scarce and difficult to get. Drs. Marcus Neustaedter, neurologist, and E. J. Banzhaff, serologist, have hit upon a procedure of producing the proper serum in a horse, the handy and prolific source of diphtheria antitoxin. This serum immunizes monkeys against the disease. It has even cured them when given quickly after they were infected...
...pneumonia, exudates (blood, pus, serum, germs) accumulate in the minute air chambers of the lungs. The lungs lose their sponginess, resemble the liver. In addition, areas of these air cells become devitalized, collapse. All this prevents an adequate amount of oxygen getting into the blood, and waste carbon dioxide and toxins escaping from the blood. The lungs labor to breathe until they and the poisoned heart become exhausted...
...Professor Kiyoshi Shiga, the hospital director and an eminent bacteriologist*, some months ago implanted leprosy bacilli in some mice. Since 1871 when Dr. G. Armauer Hansen of Norway discovered the Bacillus leprae men have been trying to grow it artificially. If the germs could be cultivated, perhaps an antileprosy serum would evolve. Some ten years ago a Russian biologist, Kadroski, announced such an artificial culture. Just before his death Dr. Moses Clegg of the Philippine Bureau of Science at Manila, announced a culture. Last year Dr. Ernest L. Walker of the Hooper Foundation for Medical Research, San Francisco, announced another...
Last week Bacteriologist Hermann Dostal of Vienna announced that he had isolated the leprosy bacillus, developed a serum. One problem which has always confronted scientists attempting to isolate the bacillus has been a means of keeping it alive once it was removed from the human body. Dr. Dostal's success lay in developing a culture medium. Another difficulty: animals not being susceptible to leprosy, it is necessary to experiment with humans...
...serum, he announced, has been used with "gratifying" results in the Bari Clinic Some of his patients showed marked improvement, others were definitely cured...