Word: serums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huge one. There are in the U.S., he estimates, about 10 million allergy victims; about 2,000,000 have asthma, up to 7,000,000 have hay fever and the rest an assortment of hives, eczema, sinus disorders, reactions to foods, allergic headaches, contact allergies such as ivy poisoning, serum sickness and sensitivity to drugs...
...short, Scientist Kahn had developed the rifle. When he mixed the blood fluid from a syphilis patient with a substance prepared from fatty beef heart, the mixture quickly clouded and a deposit settled in the bottom of the test tube; with blood serum from a healthy individual, the clear fluid stayed clear. Thus was born the first simple and effective serum test for syphilis, and one of those in widest use today.* In popular lingo, Kahn tests are often called Wassermanns. Kahn, who took no cash for his discovery, lets the credit go too. Says...
...work even when he is asleep. Often he will wake in the middle of the night, switch on a light and jot down a clue that has just occurred to him. The most promising clue that has occurred to Dr. Kahn's wakeful brain during 25 years of serum tests is that any human blood, healthy or diseased, will produce its own distinctive pattern of reactions when mixed with particular concentrations of beefheart extract. (Syphilitic serum happens to produce a strong reaction with a concentration chosen for the purpose...
...Kahn is going on to tackle other diseases. He even hopes that an unusual blood-serum reaction might signal the approach of cancer before a detectable growth has formed. But Dr. Kahn admits that it may take 50 years for his work to be fully translated into cures. And cures, says he, are all that count...
...cells -i.e., cancer-results. In some unspecified way, Durovic "stimulated" the reticulo-endothelial system of horses-a group of cells in the liver, spleen, bone marrow and lymphatic tissue which is believed to have some connection with the disease-fighting capacities of the body. Then, from the blood serum of the horses, Durovic extracted and purified a white powder which he believes to contain the regulator substance. He named it Krebiozen, a Greek derivative meaning "creator of biological force...