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...itself against cancer. Dr. Edmund Klein of Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., who has already had some success treating skin cancer, tried a variation of the treatment on five women. The patients had all undergone breast surgery already and were suffering recurrences of cancer. Klein injected a serum containing tuberculin-a substance that rouses the body to counterattack-directly into the women's cancerous lesions. Then, as the cancers showed signs of healing, he switched from the painful shots to regular applications of a tuberculin skin cream. Most people at some time in their lives have...
...play consists of the two women--the mother and Catherine--giving their versions of Sebastian's character. His mother worships him, and refuses to admit any flaws. Catherine, under the influence of a truth serum, tells what he was really like, and the sordid way he died...
...history of the disease, six (60%) were found to harbor large numbers of the particles. Doctors are still reluctant to state flatly that these particles actually cause breast cancers in humans. They have been unable as yet to identify particles in a human tumor. But Moore has found that serum from humans who have had breast cancer can have a neutralizing effect on the mouse virus when the serum is injected into mice...
...flew into his bedroom and bit the sleeping child on the thumb. Determining from tests that the bat was rabid, doctors began almost immediately to administer vaccine made from rabies virus grown in duck embryos and then killed. For 15 days, they injected massive doses of the serum into the muscles of Matthew's abdomen, a painful prophylaxis that usually prevents the disease if begun early enough. This time, the effort failed. By the end of October, Matthew complained of muscular stiffness and dizziness; by early November, he was experiencing difficulty in speaking and moving his left...
...Frances Cunningham entered MacNeal Memorial Hospital in Berwyn, Ill., for treatment of anemia in 1960. During her stay, she received several pints of blood, and when she came down with a severe case of serum hepatitis a few months later, she sued the hospital...