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...might be given in mass quantities to air raid casualties, would be extremely dangerous to the 40 per cent of the student body who suffer from slight or serious allergies, the Hygiene Department stated, as it advised such people to take advantage of a newly developed tetanus toxoid serum...
People who have inherited hay fever or asthma, who have taken pneumonia serum, or who have suffered previously from the old tetanus anti-toxin, may become gravely ill if given a fresh dose, and anyone who has had the treatment less than five years ago is also liable to a reaction...
Although the treatment is free, there is a charge of about $1.50 for the serum...
...eight years ago most U.S. doctors paid little attention to arthritis. Typical treatments included injection of streptococcic and typhoid vaccines, dietary fads, bee venom serum, manipulation of gnarled hands and joints. Such treatments have now been largely discarded. More important, several different forms of arthritis have been clearly distinguished, each with its special therapy. Three recently developed blood tests also indicate what sort of arthritis a patient...
Solutions thus treated acquire the various characteristics of a natural blood serum which would be obtained from an animal immunized with the same antigen. The Caltech researchers have already prepared antibodies against a few simple chemical antigens (e.g., methyl blue), and are working toward more complex antigens such as snake venoms and viruses...