Word: serums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry Ford Hospital Dr. Frank Wilbur Hartman and colleagues dissolved pectin in warm double-distilled water, filtered it through fine papers till it had the same thickness as blood serum. After injecting this liquid pectin into a number of guinea pigs, rabbits and dogs with no ill effects, they transfused it into the veins of eight patients. Results: "the bleeding time, coagulation time . . . were not altered. . . . Satisfactory blood pressure levels were maintained throughout. . . . Pectin is retained in the body a short time and then eliminated...
Carried to death's door by the bite of a Montana tick, a laboratory worker was saved last week by a new serum. With one notable exception, this researcher was the first scientist among several score experimenting on Rocky Mountain spotted fever to recover from an attack. The other: the man who invented the serum-young Dr. Norman Hawkins Topping of the U.S. Public Health Service. His attack of fever three years ago was so '"terrible" that after his miraculous recovery he worked day & night till he produced the new serum...
Victims develop violent headaches, chills, fever, break out in bright red spots. Death may occur in three weeks. Dr. Topping's serum, which has saved about 20 patients so far, is not dramatic; it neither softens nor shortens the disease. The serum is made by infecting vaccinated rabbits with ground-up ticks, then drawing off their blood, which is rich in antibodies...
...ripe for another pandemic siege of influenza" he said, adding that he has great admiration for the U.S. Public Health Service which is responsible for protecting this country from such an epidemic, and he hopes that any increase in influenza can be checked with the help of a serum which is now being developed...
When the reactionary bigwigs of a large German hospital fire him for being too independent, young Dr. Ehrlich enters a long life of prodigious work--during which he finds the method for recognizing tuberculosis germs, discovers a diptheria serum, and gives the world a cure for its devasting "social disease." At a very swank dinner party one dear old lady asks Dr. Ehrlich what is working on now. "Syphilis," he replies, and thirty months drop open in shocked amazement...