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...years ago, E. Freund and Gisa Kaminer of Vienna published results of investigations on cancer which attracted attention throughout the scientific world. They had found that the serum of the blood of cancer patients would not dissolve cancer cells, whereas that of normal persons would. They claimed, indeed, that the cancer serum would protect cancers against the dissolving action of normal serum. Now they have announced in the Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift (Vienna Clinical Weekly) the results of their last ten years of work on this subject. They have found in the intestinal contents of persons with cancer a substance which...
...particularly common and severe in schools, asylums, foundling homes. For years medical investigators have been attempting to find some method of protection, comparable to the protection now afforded for smallpox, typhoid, diphtheria. In 1916, C. Nicolle and E. Conseil of the Pasteur Institute in Tunis used the serum obtained from a patient convalescing from measles to secure protection against the disease. Last year F. von Torday collected the records of 2,000 cases in which the convalescent serum had been administered, and found that it failed to protect in less than 3%. Drs. George H. Weaver and T. T. Crooks...
...used for testing immunity to diphtheria. Dr. W. Mair of London, who has spent many years on the study of scarlet fever, has been able to confirm the specific character of a test originally worked out by Schultz and Charlton in Germany. In that test a small amount of serum from a patient who is convalescing from scarlet fever is injected into the skin of a person who may be acutely ill with the disease. If the patient has scarlet fever the skin becomes pale at the spot. This is taken as an indication that the serum of patients recovering...
...philanthropists, have come to the aid of Henri Spahlinger, Swiss discoverer of the promising Spahlinger tuberculosis treatment ( TIME, April 28, June 25). They will try to raise $500,000 to make the treatment available anywhere in the British Commonwealth. Baron Rothschild, himself a physician, has determined that the serum be saved for mankind. Spahlinger has already spent his entire fortune of $500,000 in the work, and Sir Stanley Birkin gave $100,000. Spahlinger refuses to exploit the treatment commercially. His serum is obtained from inoculated horses by an expensive process, 50 of the best-bred dark Irish horses (costing...
Like many other "cures," the new remedy has met with much skepticism among the medical profession. American physicians, commenting on the reports, say the results claimed are unbelievably good. They demand detailed scientific tests. At Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan, a serum has been developed during the last three years which has cut the pneumonia deathrate from 30% to 15%, according to Dr. Russell L. Cecil. Many other investigators have been working on pneumonia remedies, mostly of a serological nature. Dr. Tomarkin's cure merits favorable consideration, at least, from the fact that it is vouched for by Professor Ettore Marchiafava...