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When the child was one year old, she received toxin-antitoxin against diphtheria. The serum came from a horse. Last year she was exposed to diphtheria. The doctor injected a protective dose of antitoxin (derived from a horse) in her left buttock. The part swelled. Three days later the doctor found diphtheria germs in cultures from her nose and throat, and at once gave her a large dose of antitoxin in the right buttock. That antitoxin also came from a horse. The left buttock was still swollen. Within a few days the right buttock swelled and, as the days passed...
When Lillian Fisher, 15, of Joliet, Ill , developed infantile paralysis last week the Fisher physician telephoned long distance to Chicago's Durand Hospital for serum, heard Dr. George Howitt Weaver tell him to use parrot's blood instead. Immediately a parrot was bled. Five cubic centimetres were injected into Lillian Fisher. She improved. When Dr. Weaver heard about the injection he exclaimed: "The doctor just misunderstood me. I said parent's blood, not parrot's blood...
...three months, Doc Dobbin could stand ten times as much diphtheria poison as he had first received. He had formed substances in his blood to fight the germs. Laboratory men withdrew blood from Doc Dobbin's neck. They stored it in sterile glass cylinders, allowed the valuable antibody serum to separate from the rest of the blood. After three days the serum was siphoned of, stored in a refrigerator ready for use. Antitoxin horses are bled once a month, are permitted to rest, feed well between times. No matter how old they become, they are useful for antitoxin...
...Manhattan scientists announced last week that they had developed a horse serum useful against infantile paralysis. Heretofore the best treatment for the disease has been "convalescent serum" taken from a person who has recently recovered from infantile paralysis. Convalescent serum has been scarce and difficult to get. Drs. Marcus Neustaedter, neurologist, and E. J. Banzhaff, serologist, have hit upon a procedure of producing the proper serum in a horse, the handy and prolific source of diphtheria antitoxin. This serum immunizes monkeys against the disease. It has even cured them when given quickly after they were infected...
...pneumonia, exudates (blood, pus, serum, germs) accumulate in the minute air chambers of the lungs. The lungs lose their sponginess, resemble the liver. In addition, areas of these air cells become devitalized, collapse. All this prevents an adequate amount of oxygen getting into the blood, and waste carbon dioxide and toxins escaping from the blood. The lungs labor to breathe until they and the poisoned heart become exhausted...