Word: serums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walter ("Death Valley Scotty") Scott, the West's most publicized "desert rat," was up & around again at 70-odd after a routine encounter with a rattlesnake. Struck on the thumb, Scotty doctored himself: he yanked the snake off, slashed the wound, applied serum from his handy kit, trotted home to live...
Forty minutes after the cobra struck, Mrs. Wiley was in Long Beach Municipal Hospital. The only antivenom serum there was from North American snakes, and useless for cobra bites. Her throat muscles had begun to contract ominously. Mrs. Wiley, now almost unconscious, shook her head hopelessly. She was put into an iron lung, but it was too late; the paralysis was creeping through her chest. When it reached her heart muscles, an hour and forty minutes after she had been bitten, Grace Wiley died...
While Harvard's serum fared well against the Tiger, the bottom of the barrel team which Coach Jim Nuland had to field was outclassed all the way. Last week at Cambridge, a strong Crimson team had been definitely upset by the Tigers...
...Doctors in Philadelphia were told by visiting medical brass that their big job would be to decide which atomic victims were worth treating with scarce blood serum, etc., and which were not. Best Army opinion: anybody caught within a mile of the blast would probably...
...enzyme called hyaluronidase, which exists in the testes, eyes, spleen, skin. He believed that it exists in large amounts in most cancers. He devised a urine test: the enzyme is extracted from the urine with ether, then mixed with a solution of fresh umbilical cord and rabbit serum. Two weeks ago, in the first issue of the new South Dakota Journal of Medicine and Pharmacy, he reported his findings: if the solution remains clear, the patient has the enzyme in his body in larger than normal amounts-and may have cancer. If the solution becomes cloudy, the patient is free...