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During a bad U.S. epidemic in 1928, mortality was so high that many physicians lost faith in the serums which were then widely used. But about 1935 improved serums and antitoxins were developed. The sulfa-drugs have also reduced meningitis mortality. In World War I, meningitis killed 39% of the U.S. soldiers who came down with it. Using both the improved serum and sulfa-compounds in the recent Virginia outbreak, Borden & Strong held mortality...
...delay-each of which once killed more men than flying bits of metal. In Russia, as elsewhere, plasma transfusions have reduced effects of shock, which is essentially a disorder of the blood stream (the body tissues seem to absorb the blood's natural plasma). Sulfa drugs and tetanus serum have reduced danger of infections. In use of antitoxin for gas gangrene-the bacterial infection that causes a wound to froth-Russia claims to be well ahead of other nations. Said Dr. Hugh Cabot, famed Boston surgeon, recently: "We are still wondering whether we can get a vaccine...
...Caltech biochemists believe that their discovery is further proof that immunization, whose physiological mechanics has long been a major mystery, is a molecular phenomenon. In the blood stream of animals are large protein molecules called serum globulin. If a bacterium, virus, poison molecule or other "antigen" is near the point where these molecules are formed, the adaptable globulin molecules change their shape and assume structures complementary to those of the invading antigens, so that they can combine with them and neutralize them. After the infection or poisoning has been overcome, these changed globulin molecules remain in the blood as antibodies...
There Is No Cure for the plague. Serum, given immediately after a quick diagnosis, helps somewhat. Quantities of plague serum are kept ready & waiting at U.S. Public Health laboratories...
...step with wartime medical advances, the Hygiene Department has announced that it has on hand a new toxoid which is designed to fight tetanus without causing the serious reactions which often arise. If the serum is taken in advance and again after an injury, much time may be saved in administering it to allergic people, who otherwise could only be given the ordinary toxin very slowly and with considerable danger. Naturally this discovery can play an important role in bomb-threatened regions, where many injuries might require immediate attention. But under ordinary circumstances it also can accomplish much, since...