Word: serums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cutter Laboratories, born in the backroom of the late Edward Cutter's Fresno, Calif, pharmacy in 1897, is the second oldest pharmaceutical house in the country under continuous ownership and management (the oldest: Parke, Davis & Co.), and has a solid professional reputation. It pioneered commercial production of serum albumin (for shock and kidney infections), gamma globulin (the first anti-polio serum), triple vaccine (against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus), the Semple Rabies Vaccine (an improvement on the old Pasteur formula), and is the exclusive U.S. marketer of fibrinogen (which helps to clot blood) and bubonic plague vaccine...
...movie itself is a jumble of all the old show business plots, but then this is a huge gathering of all musicals. Glue for the mixture is a pleasing serum of Irving Berlin's tunes and a splashing does of technicolor. Ethel Merman is the film's biggest asset, launching into her songs with a driving enthusiasm that shames Dan Dailey, who is busy worrying about his errant showtime son, Donald. O'Connor hoofs and melodizes in his usual manner, but looks like the Soap-Box Derby Winner with a Cadillac when he romances with a healthier and heftier Marilyn...
...Louis Pillemer and a team of researchers at Cleveland's Western Reserve University make no hard claim to have found the final solution to the puzzle. They have isolated, from the blood serum of both man and animals, a protein that destroys bacteria and neutralizes viruses. Because of its powers, they have named it properdin (from the Latin perdere, to destroy). While the antibody proteins that the system develops after some diseases or inoculations (e.g., polio, diphtheria) are useful only against the organisms that cause the particular disease, properdin is not choosy: it destroys or neutralizes an extremely wide...
Free for All? The Red Cross insists that no charge ever be levied for blood which it has collected from volunteer donors, or for serum albumin and gamma globulin derived from such blood. But the A.M.A. and state medical societies claim that free blood-for any patients other than charity cases-is "socialism." In public statements some officials of county and state societies have shown that they are determined to wrest control of blood from "lay" groups...
...zinc, titanium and tin in cell metabolism. Past workers in biochemistry have discovered that in the white blood corpuscles of leukemia patients an abnormally low amount of zinc is present, while in liver disease, heart ailments, Hodgkins disease, and certain types of psychosis the copper concentration of the blood serum increases...