Word: serums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...filtrate during the past two-and-a-half years "with remarkable success and with no previous ill effects." He announced his belief that one bottle had become contaminated, and when he tested another bottle in his stock on guinea pigs, the pigs died like the patients unless tetanus serum was administered...
...confused with the pneumonia serums now given to help victims of pneumonia recover. The cost of these serums and of preliminary tests necessary to determine which of 32 types of pneumonia a patient may have, is comparatively high, so that as yet only the rich can afford them, or the very poor, to whom several States this winter have supplied serum free...
...patient has measles the doctor may be able to shorten its course or make it less severe by injecting: 1) blood serum from someone recently recovered from measles, or 2) an extract of human placenta...
...make it easy for Chicagoans to get such serums the late Samuel Deutsch, Chicago steelman, established a Serum Center at Michael Reese Hospital, which now stocks serums against infantile paralysis and scarlet fever as well as measles. But in all the U. S. there are only six similar serum centres-Manhattan, Los Angeles, Des Moines, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Detroit...
Last week Drs. Eugene Lindsay Opie and Jules Freund of Cornell University Medical College reported in the Journal of Experimental Medicine a harmless preventive which they described as just as effective as BCG. They simply killed tubercle bacilli by heat and added heated horse serum. This protects an inoculated individual for one or two years, long enough, noted the doctors, "to influence favorably the delicate balance between asymptomatic or latent infection and progressive manifest disease that is characteristic of human tuberculosis...