Word: serums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts known about hepatitis' cause & cure, Dr. Joseph Stokes Jr. of the University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia's Children's Hospital and Army Captain John R. Neefe added an important discovery. In the Journal of the American Medical Association they reported that blood serum globulin (already used as a measles preventive) can probably stop an infectious hepatitis epidemic...
Globulin is extracted from the pooled blood serum of many donors, thus contains disease-fighting elements contributed by all of them. The protection it gives is only temporary, but usually lasts until an epidemic is over. The doctors got the chance to try globulin last summer at a large summer camp where infectious hepatitis was spoiling the vacations of 80% of the campers. Of 331 as yet unjaundiced campers, 53 got globulin injections. Soon 67% of the untreated campers got sick, while 80.2% of the globulin-shot kept well. And those who succumbed were not as sick as the untreated...
Working on the experiments is Major Albert Bruce Sabin, Rockefeller Institute and University of Cincinnati researcher on poliomyelitis and other viruses. With a satchelful of serum, flies, cultures and swabs, he has shuttled for six months between the Trenton penitentiary and the Rockefeller Institute's Princeton laboratories...
...From Rio de Janeiro last fortnight came a report of a sensational new serum, "sutulina," said to have cured guinea pigs and one human patient of T.B. The Chilean and Brazilian doctors who developed it admitted their experiments were in an early stage. U.S. experts awaited further details...
...small watch glass, the two researchers put a human egg, cut from a woman's ovary. Next they put in some live male sperm. They let the mixture stand for an hour at room temperature, then placed it in an incubating flask with a culture of human blood serum. After 40 hours, they had a two-celled organism, the apparent beginnings of a human being...