Word: serums
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...nature and is a common inhabitant of the mouth. It may also cause bronchopneumonia, meningitis, endocarditis, and septicemia. It gives out a very strong toxin, which the kidneys eliminate wth frequent damage to themselves. The germ induces in the lungs, in lobar pneumonia especially, a copious exudation of protective serum. Then come the polymorphonuclear (of many-shaped nuclei) leucocytes, which surround the invading germs and eat them (phagocytosis...
...Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland, for some years Dr. Henry Spahlinger, famed scientist, has worked to perfect a remedy for tuberculosis. In 1919 he discovered a serum which attracted much attention from the medical profession; since then he has made steady advances, so that now his serum, far stronger than the original discovery, is said to cure an ordinary case in six months, a so-called "hopeless" case in a year and a half. But last week a couple of bailiffs threatened to take up their abode in the institute at Carouge. Dr. Spahlinger's creditors were getting anxious. Standing among...
...play. But when the heart-in the worn-out or sick- must push the blood in abnormal amount or at too great speed through the arteries, these stretch, lose their elasticity, their contractile powers. They thicken in spots: thin in others. Them too the blood tries to heal; brings serum to weak spots, serum which turns gelatinous, gelatine which hardens, calcifies. The arteries become ropy, then hard like the stems of clay pipes. The patient has hardening of the arteries...
...MacDonald and Macleod have crushed beef livers (from healthy two-year-old animals), let serum rise from the maceration, filtered, titrated, decanted the serum, got a whitish grey fluid which they injected into the muscles of men suffering from high blood pressure...
...tooth extracted was admitted to a hospital. He had been bleeding steadily for several hours and it was feared that he might die. Only a year ago his brother had died from loss of blood after cutting his hand. Two doctors decided to give the patient thromboplatin, a horse serum. Within 24 hours the wound had stopped bleeding...