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...February 1933, stuporous Patricia Maguire developed pneumonia. An oxygen tent, adrenalin and antipneumococcus serum preserved her deathlike life...
...test a little of the child's blood serum is injected into a healthy mouse. Then the mouse receives a little of Dr. Brodie's infected filtrate. If the child is immune, nothing will happen to the mouse. But, wrote Dr. Brodie in Science last week, if the child is susceptible to infantile paralysis, after two days "the clinical picture in the mouse is quite acute. It begins with irritability, jumpiness, ruffled hair and goes on to ataxia [dragging] of the hind legs, humped back, convulsions, circular movements, twisting of the head and sometimes ptosis [drooping...
...Anton Weichselbaum (1845-1920) of Vienna isolated the specific germ, meningococcus, which attacks the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord and causes the disease. Dr. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute perfected a serum which attacked the meningococci. That was in 1908. Mortality, which before 1908 had been...
...past 27 years the Flexner type of serum has been standard treatment for cerebro-spinal meningitis. The doctor sticks a hollow needle into the patient's rigid spine. Out squirts a quantity of the germ-laden cerebro-spinal fluid, which has been imprisoned under pressure. When the squirt slows down the doctor injects the serum...
According to those authorities, the simplest divisions of human blood types are those discovered in 1900 by Dr. Karl Landsteiner of the Rockefeller Institute. Dr. Landsteiner first found that, when he mixed the red cells of one person with the blood serum of another, occasionally the red cells agglutinated. Cause of the occasional clumping, he found, was an antibody in the serum which was antipathetic to an agglutinogen in the red cells. Further research disclosed two agglutinogens, A and B. A person's red cells might contain A or B, or both (AB) or neither (O). Thus, according...