Word: serums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Worries. Handicapping is no job for a man trying to make friends. Whenever horsemen gather and the flasks of truth serum circulate, someone is sure to get exercised about harsh treatment at the hands of the racing secretary...
...paler. Dr. Lahey remembered experiments in which rats fed nothing but milk developed anemia, which yielded only when copper as well as iron was added to their diet. He knew of no such case in human babies, but Dr. Lahey sent a sample of Jo Ellen's blood serum to Salt Lake City to be tested. Last Thanksgiving Eve, Mrs. Ellen Koenig phoned her husband from the hospital to say: "They're releasing Jo Ellen undiagnosed" (meaning incurable, in this case). At the same moment Dr. Lahey's phone was jangling with a call from Salt Lake...
Since monkeys cannot talk, and schizophrenia is described in psychological terms dependent on patients' reporting, Heath and co-workers decided to take the next step and test the serum extract on human volunteers. Two were found at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Carefully examined by psychiatrists, they showed no trace of latent mental illness. Given only the same tiny dose as a seven-pound monkey, the men developed similar symptoms within five minutes, reaching a peak after about half an hour...
...wolf's massive jaws had chomped right through his skull, and the teeth, piercing the dura mater (parchment-like covering) had dripped rabies virus directly into the brain. Golam already had contracted meningitis through the head wounds. He got penicillin as well as a special course of serum every two days, plus vaccine...
Textbook Neatness. Of the five with head wounds who got only vaccine, three died. Of the 13 who got serum as well, only one died (and he had but a single shot of serum). Among the 25 who today are alive and healthy is Golam Khazayi. No other human being has survived so intimate a brush with rabies...