Word: serums
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...abroad for her confinement. A year or so later, on her way back to marry Andrews who has finally rid himself of his spouse, Dr. Stevens helps the ship's doctor treat a case of infantile paralysis. Her own child contracts the disease and dies before serum can be brought by airplane. She is just about to throw herself out of a window in despair when the janitor scampers in to say that his child has swallowed a safety pin. Pulling it out is what restores Mary Stevens' interest in existence...
...cures of sickness no more signify an infallible remedy than do two swallow's make a summer. Nevertheless physicians were interested last week when Dr. Ronald Hare of London reported in the Lancet two cures of influenza pneumonia with serum prepared from human beings convalescing from influenza...
Researchers learned to make the new serum by experimenting on ferrets...
...with consequent danger to the community. Dr. Mayne. who learned all about mosquitoes in England. India. the Philippines and the U. S., found that by chloroforming them under a 20-power magnifying glass he could cut out their salivary glands in which lie the malarial organisms. Made into a serum, the malaria germs from one mosquito suffice to inoculate twelve paretics...
...white woman for limestone, black for coal, yellow for sand, red for iron ore. Critics rated the frescoes first-class, noted an increasing hardness and sharpness in Rivera's detail. Nearly overlooked was a little panel high on one wall, showing a child being vaccinated in a serum laboratory. In the foreground were serum-giving animals, a horse, a bull and sheep, traditional beasts of Holy Nativity pictures...