Word: serums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most frequently advanced theory: heat from the priest's hands, or from unaccustomed light and motion, melts a bloodlike substance with a very low melting point (one scientist claimed to have duplicated the effect with a misuse of chocolate powder and milk serum). Partisans of San Gennaro retort that 1) temperature tests refute the heat theory; 2) the liquefaction has sometimes taken place without the container's being touched...
...doctor's degree in bacteriology. After a stint as senior bacteriologist at Massachusetts' state antitoxin laboratory, he went to Cyanamid's Lederle Laboratories in 1934, three years later gave the company a major breakthrough by developing a fast, inexpensive way of growing anti-pneumonia serum in rabbits instead of horses. By the time he was 36, Malcolm was Lederle's research director. Since 1955, he has been boss of all sales and market development for Cyanamid's chain of 40 plants producing a widely diversified line of 6,000 products. ¶ James O. Plinton, World...
Attention centered first on Dr. Stig Akerfeldt, a boyish (27), blond biochemist from Stockholm's famed Nobel Institute, who had reported that when a certain chemical is added to a sample of blood serum, it will turn a bright red if the subject has schizophrenia or other severe mental illness. Akerfeldt's method has been touted as a "test" for schizophrenia. It is far from being that, since it also gives a red reaction with patients suffering from various infections, cancer, disorders of the liver, or even with women in the later months of pregnancy. But Akerfeldt...
Researcher Akerfeldt is clearly over that hurdle: in a jampacked meeting last week U.S. researchers said that they had duplicated his method with minor variations, adding a chemical called DPP (for N,N-dimethyl-p-phenylene diamine) to serum specimens and getting the red reaction from patients with serious mental illnesses and some other diseases. (One notable exception: patients who have had schizophrenia a long time.) Most promising positive use: the reaction seems to be clearest in children, whose emotional disorders are especially hard to diagnose-and who are not likely to have such misleading conditions as malaria or pregnancy...
What to do about it? Dr. Heath startled his colleagues last year by reporting that he had consistently extracted from the blood serum of schizophrenics a substance, which he has dubbed taraxein, that causes symptoms similar to schizophrenia when injected into normal volunteers. To make sure that taraxein really exists in schizophrenics' blood and is not merely a byproduct of laboratory processing of the serum, Heath took half a pint of blood from patients, removed the cells, and directly injected the serum into volunteers. They promptly developed what looked like mild, temporary, schizophrenic symptoms. With similar blood from normal...