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Russian science has reported another medical sensation: a serum which stimulates or inhibits the life processes of living tissue. The Russian scientists claim that the serum hastens wound healing, mends broken bones more quickly, increases the body's defenses against infection and cancer, may enable man to live to be 125 years...
...acute appendix operation in 1921. Ten years later a New York taxicab knocked him down, gave him lacerations and pleurisy. He recovered with the aid of 3,000 units of anti-tetanus serum. Only ten months ago he had another attack of pneumonia...
Unable to find any bacterial cause for the disease, Dr. Whitney blames some unknown virus. The only treatment that seems to do any good is injection of serum from a recovered dog, but this works only in the early stages...
Each of Dr. Mahoney's patients was given an injection of 25,000 units of penicillin in the buttock muscles every four hours. Each received 48 injections. After 16 hours of treatment, the corkscrew-shaped spirochetes no longer showed up under the microscope in serum from the lesion. Dr. Mahoney was "stunned"; this is the first case on record in which penicillin has killed spirochetes, a higher form of life than bacilli. Yet the patients had no bad reaction from the injections...
...recovered. The two who died did so almost as soon as they reached the hospital, might have lived if they had been treated soon enough. The death rate from spinal meningitis, like that of cholera or bubonic plague, used to be about 70% of all cases. Anti-meningococcus serum, which came into use about 1907, cut the mortality to around 25%. But in World War I meningitis was the sixth cause of death in the U.S. Army, killed 1,737 soldiers. The sulfa drugs, if used soon enough, may now cut the mortality to the vanishing point...