Word: sperti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...singular and ideal" healing ointment for severe burns-long sought by good physicians-was announced last fortnight by Dr. Thomas F. P. Walsh of Chicago's Mercy Hospital. He spoke before Cincinnati's Institutum Divi Thomae, * whose staff, directed by Dr. George Speri Sperti, produced in their laboratory the ointment Dr. Walsh tested in the hospital. Dr. Sperti believes that the research work which produced the new treatment will "go down in history as second to none other, including the work of Pasteur...
Exactly how the new substance works is not known. Theory is that, when some cells are injured or destroyed, the injured cells produce hormones which stimulate cellular multiplication so that the tissues heal. The Institutum scientists set out to manufacture these Hypothetical hormones (which Dr. Sperti" christened "biodynes") in the laboratory so that they could be applied to human wounds to accelerate healing. At first the biodynes were created by exposing tissues from rat and chicken embryos to ultraviolet rays. This injured some of the cells and induced production of the healing substances in them. The scientists now extract...
...Rosary College in Illinois, she went on with her science studies. In 1930 she took her final vows as a member of the Dominican Sisters, became Sister Mary Jordan Carroll. Dr. George Sped Sperti, famed director of the Institutum Divi Thomae in Cincinnati, sent word that he had places for two able sisters on his research staff. Sister Mary Jordan Carroll went...
...Sperti found Sister Mary Jordan Carroll a "brilliant student," quick-fingered and witty as well. She and Professor J. C. Fardon did an astute experiment on the eye colors of Drosophila melanogaster, the scientifically renowned fruit fly. They made spectroscopic analyses of the pigments, found there was only one basic, sepia-hued pigment which was present in varying amounts under the control of the genes. In 1938 Sister Mary Jordan Carroll's paper on this work attracted wide notice...