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Born in Jail. Professor Alexander Alexandrovitch Bogomoletz, who has worked on the serum for more than 18 years, is a physiologist and pathologist of very high international standing. He is director of Kiev's Institute for Experimental Biology and Pathology which, until the Nazis got there, was one of the best equipped laboratories in the world. Since 1930 he has been president of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. When the Germans came, he moved from Kiev (he was born in jail there in 1881, while his mother was a political prisoner) to Ufa in the Urals. This month...
Marrow from Human Corpses. The serum is not new to the Russians. Famed Professor Elie Metchnikoff was working on a similar serum back in 1900. ACS was used experimentally on animals until about 1936. Then it was tried out on human patients. To acquaint U.S. doctors with this work, the latest issue of the American Review of Soviet Medicine carries three articles on ACS, including one by Professor Bogomoletz. Some highlights...
...Match to a Fire. Professor Bogomoletz' description of ACS's complex action in the body reads like one of Professor Einstein's "simplifications" of his theory. The serum's effects begin to show about the time of the second dose. First signs: 1) increased ability of blood substances to enter cells; 2) dilated capillaries; 3) a rise in lymphocytes (a kind of white blood corpuscle). Three or four hours later, a second stage begins, during which lymphocytes decrease and monocytes (another kind of white corpuscle) multiply and migrate from the blood into the solid tissue. Cells...
Widespread Success. When the war came, ACS was immediately put to use. Injections have become so general that proud Professor Bogomoletz last week told a Red Star reporter that "at present, the anti-reticular-cytotoxic serum has been widely and successfully used in all hospitals and clinics for curing the consequences of war injuries." Red Star carried stories about men now at the front who would have been legless or armless but for ACS. The professor says the serum does not cost much and is easy to make (Russia made 3,000,000 doses in 1943); he recommends that Russia...
...have handled 360 burn cases aboard a hospital ship, do not believe in tannic acid for burns-it forms a loose, crusty scab under which infection often develops. All they used on the young fireman was sulfathiazole ointment and rather tight bandages. The tightness slowed the oozing of blood serum into injured tissues, thus reducing shock. A month after he was burned, the sailor's wounds were healthy and pinch grafts were laid on his deepest burns. The patient, almost unscarred, is now back on duty...