Word: serums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children, are more easily managed. The whooping-cough problem is: Does a germ (the so-called Bordet-Gengoubacillus) alone cause the disease, or must that germ have some virus present in the throat and lungs before it causes whooping cough? Upon the answer depends the kind of vaccine or serum to prevent and cure the disease...
...Separation of hemoglobin, blood's red coloring matter, from the blood serum would require 180 years by gravity sedimentation, but may be accomplished in six hours with DuPont's new Svedberg (1 electro-condenser, 2 atom gun, 3 molecular magnet, 4 centrifuge, 5 chemical reducer...
...conditioned hospital ships for sunstroke cases. He proceeded to inoculate every Italian to land at Massawa or Mogadiscio with the vaccine he himself had discovered in British employ for prevention of typhoid, paratyphoid and cholera. Sir Aldo shipped to East Africa tons of quinine for malaria, tons of serum tubes for tetanus, gas gangrene and snake bite, and 18,000 hospital cots. He covered suspected water holes with petroleum, fumigated camps, provided good drinking water, dotted Eritrea with hospitals and laboratories. The Italian Army fought under unprecedentedly thorough medical care...
Last week's visitors saw a few drops of hemoglobin, blood's red coloring matter, being separated from the blood serum. In the Svedberg centrifuge this takes about six hours. By gravity sedimentation alone it would require 180 years. Du Pont expects the apparatus to shed light on the sizes and weights of the "giant" protein molecules in rubber, wool, silk, cellulose, hundreds of plastics...
When the picture opens, Dr. John Luke (Jean Hersholt) and his faithful nurse (Dorothy Peterson) are battling a diphtheria epidemic under adverse circumstances. It is the dead of Canadian winter. Wires have broken down. The village of Moosetown is cut off from the world. There is almost no serum left. The doctor's nephew, summoned by one of the doctor's lumberman patients with a homemade radio, arrives by plane with...