Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cancer cells of the type called Ehrlich sarcoma are ground up, made into an emulsion and injected beneath the skins of mice, the animals invariably die. Drs. Alexandre Besredka and Ludwik Gross of the Pasteur Institute in Paris made small, weak doses of finely minced sarcoma tissue, injected them not beneath but in the skins of mice. In most of the animals metastases (cancer colonizations elsewhere in the body) took place and death followed. But in 10% the skin tumor caused by the injection dried up and disappeared and thereafter the mice were immune to that type of sarcoma...
Even better results were obtained with rabbit carcinoma. When the rabbits were inoculated in the skin, the resulting tumors invariably disappeared and the animal was thereafter immune. It was evident that in the rabbit's blood some antibody had been generated which dried up the skin tumor and provided lasting protection. Similar experiments with chickens, however, failed...
...Cincinnati's St. Mary Hospital for the past year the fluid has been used to treat burns. To the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Indianapolis last week Dr. Sperti declared that the. results have been remarkable. Ugly burns have healed quickly, with smooth, normal skin over the burned area instead of puckered scar tissue...
...fact does not lessen pungent little Harry Caddow's contempt for those who still disdain California for French wine. He does not like to think about cosmopolites who know the best French vintage years and can afford to buy chateau-bottled wines. Recently he exclaimed: "It makes the skin roll up your back like a window shade...
...face, ears, fingernails and lips; the eyes are bloodshot and the inside of the lids are red; and there are tiny hemorrhages under the scalp. If the victim was manually strangled, the little hyoid bone in the throat is invariably crushed. If carbon monoxide was the asphyxiating agent, the skin is cherry...