Word: serums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...child's other arm was promptly swabbed with alcohol and Dr. Salk hustled over with a hypodermic. Though the syringe might hold up to 5 cc. of vaccine, the needle was changed for each child to cut down the danger of serum hepatitis. With a quick, deft motion perfected by much practice, Dr. Salk jabbed the needle in and pushed the plunger until 1 cc. had been injected. Most children let out an "Oh!" or "Ow!" and marched off, self-consciously proud, to another room where a nurse watched their reactions. One of the commonest: "Why. I didn...
...rugby team opened its season with a 3 to 0 victory over previously undefeated New York Rugy Club here yesterday. The Crimson's powerful serum and fast moving backs made the difference in the one touchdown...
Physicians make a sharp distinction between infectious hepatitis, usually spread by fecal matter, and serum hepatitis, or "needle jaundice," because the latter is carried only by blood.* That, and the fact that the serum type takes two or more months to develop (three times as long as the infectious variety), are the most obvious differences. Both kinds of hepatitis make the patient equally miserable, causing headache, fever, nausea and loss of appetite. In most cases, jaundice appears. Though hepatitis is rarely fatal, it may cause severe liver damage...
...therefore, contracted from transfusions or from improperly sterilized needles used in taking blood samples. One famed exceptional outbreak: 33,000 cases in the Army in 1942 from a yellow-fever vaccine containing human serum...
...Heidelberger suggested, during a recent trip to India, using the elephant as a mass producer of serum fractions. To transform the elephant into a mobile factory of anti-antibodies for diagnostic tests seems a simple trick to the ingenious Dr. Heidelberger-for recreation, he once rearranged a Brahms trio so that he could play the horn part on his clarinet...