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...most areas of the globe, peacetime accidents and diseases still crop up regularly in all communities, Cambridge included. For the victim of hit-and-run driving or a homorrhagic ailment, a pint of blood, supplied gratis by the State Red Cross is a vital serum which often turns impending death into certain life...
Around the Filter. For a long time, Dr. Stern worried over a basic medical problem: why is it that certain medicines and serums injected into the blood stream do not get through to the brain nerve centers? Intravenous injections of anti-tetanus serum, for example, fail to check tetanus once the poison gets into the central nervous system. Dr. Stern decided that there must be a barrier (a filtering membrane), developed to protect the nerves and spinal fluid from harmful substances and most germs. She called this block the "hematoencephalic barrier...
Infrequent emergency situations also trouble the medical students. One child entered the clinic one day with a rusty nall in his foot. Though anti-tetanus serum was necessary, the students are not permitted by law to administer it. Thus the problem of getting in touch with busy neighborhood doctors, or of supplying funds for hospital transportation arose. Though this problem was solved, it is the kind of perplexing situation that confronts the "medics" occasionally, Cobb said...
Roskin proceeded to test the serum of cancerous rabbits, then of human patients, found to his delight that when properly prepared, it was highly toxic to paramecia. No other serum, not even that from patients with benign tumors, produced the same effect. The paramecia-killing power of serum from animals with implanted cancer varied with the type of cancer. A cancer can sometimes be detected two days after it is implanted, before any visible tumor has developed...
...test is not infallible. But on the basis of tests with serum from 75 patients, Roskin thinks his method shows great promise, not only of detecting cancer early, but of identifying cancer type...