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...England, Dr. R. Cruchet experimented. From the veins, of a horse he drained off blood, which he diluted with serum and at once injected into the vein of an anemic patient. He did the same with the blood of an ox and the blood of a sheep. Horse's blood he found was tolerated best by his anemic patients...
Modestly, Bacteriologist James C. Small of the Philadelphia General Hospital told Director Wilmer Krusen of the Philadelphia Public Health Department that he had isolated a new, minute organism (Streptococcus cardioarthritidis) from the blood of rheumatic patients and had been able to build a serum that cured a few cases of rheumatism. Director Krusen was delighted, for the cause of rheumatism (rheumatic fever) is obscure. Doctors know as little about it as they do about cancer. Rheumatism does not kill so many people as does cancer. Yet it is responsible for one-fourth of all heart disease deaths...
...Philadelphia men are confident they have the remedy for rheumatism. But, proper scientists, they made their announcement cautiously: "We are making only modest claims as to the value of this new serum because it is still in the experimental stage, and too small a number of cures has been effected to evaluate properly its ultimate efficacy. We do not wish to arouse undue hopes in the minds of sufferers from acute rheumatic fever with the announcement of this report, realizing that there will be many disputes in the medical profession, both pro and con, as to the real merits...
...Rhodes Farm, Middlesex England, Sir Theodore Cook, chair man of the Field Distemper Committee stated tentatively that ; serum had been devised to cure dogs of distemper...
...During the past year manufacturers ol serums have been circularizing doctors and dog owners with descriptions of a serum to immunize dogs against rabies, such serums are injected into the dog and protect him in the same way as the proper serums protect humans against typhoid fever or smallpox. This was one of the means used to fight the recent rabies situation in Louisville, Ky. (TIME, Dec. 27). But useful as is the serum, the literature has been causing a mild hysteria about "mad dogs" across the country...