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...Gordon Murray, 64, of Toronto's Gardiner Medical Research Foundation, reported going back to an old idea that had never paid off before: using animals to make an anti-cancer serum. He could not make it work in small animals, so he turned to the horse-a recognized and prolific factory for serum used against several diseases. Dr. Murray injected tissue from human cancers into his horses. When he figured that they had had time to make antibodies, he bled them, extracted the serum from the blood and injected it into human patients in gradually increasing doses over...
...little-understood group of complex chemicals in which a sugarlike substance is combined with a protein. Almost the only thing known about them is that their composition changes when tissues are damaged. Price took a standard (but highly complex) fractionator. Into it he put 4 cc. (one teaspoon) of serum from the blood of his test subjects. After the machine had dropped the various fractions into an array of test tubes, he put the tubes under the spectrophotometer for analysis...
Scenes of the doctor visiting peasants living in squalor and ignorance make their points quietly, letting a frown at the stranger's syringe of tetanus serum, or scorn of his flimsy prescription note show the challenges Nerac finally dedicates himself to meeting...
...snuff. The nonprescription remedy costs one ruble (officially 25?) for a three-day supply, but only one sniff is needed if the flu victim takes it promptly the day he begins to ache and sniffle. Explained Dr. Shubladze: the influenza virus is inoculated into horses, which are later bled. Serum from their blood is dried and ground into a powder to make the antiflu snuff...
...Public Health Service experts said politely that horse-serum preparations can cause severe reactions, that it is hard to evaluate a treatment for so short-lived a disease as Asian flu. By coincidence, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a strong warning the same day against any false and misleading claims by drug manufacturers "that products of limited benefit can effectively prevent or cure Asian flu ... The public should be on guard...