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...recognized: bubonic plague, transmitted by fleas, which causes inflammation of the lymph glands; and the deadly pneumonic plague, which may be transmitted by bites from infected animals, or the breath of infected humans. Pneumonic plague usually enters through a bite in the arm, travels rapidly to the lungs and spleen. The patient has a high fever, coughs constantly, cannot get his breath. Usually in three or four days he is dead. There is no specific treatment for plague patients. Antiplague serum, made from immunized horse blood, has not so far proved of great value...
...because its ''particles are less angular and smoother than those of vegetable (wood) charcoal." The carbon particles he declares "disappear rapidly from the blood stream after their injection and are found lodged in the various organs: first and above all in the lungs, but also in the spleen and liver and, to a less extent, in the bone marrow and kidneys where the endothelial cells seem to absorb them. The carbon particles do not cause any local reaction. ... In short, it may be stated with assurance that this new anti-infectious agent-the intravenous injection of charcoal...
...idly thumbed his Herald-Trib. Richards Watts, Jr. was expatiating on a play he had just seen, apparently against his will, at the Bayes Theatre. The play, it seemed, dealt with Harvard men, and this stalwart son of Columbia (Class of 1921) was venting his spleen by mild witticisms on the Mother of American Education and Endowed College par excellence...
Casting about for something new with which to attack mouse sarcoma 180. Dr. Richard Lewisohn of New York City's Mount Sinai Hospital decided to try spleen extract. The functions of the spleen, an organ in the upper left abdomen, are not wholly understood but one of them is to disintegrate red blood corpuscles and set free their hemoglobin. It has been observed that when bits of cancer are transported by the bloodstream to colonize elsewhere in the body, the spleen is seldom affected. Spleen extract had been tried against cancer before, without success. Dr. Lewisohn decided that...
...took 281 healthy white mice, implanted cancers under their right armpits by injections of tumor particles of mouse sarcoma 180. The spleen extract which he prepared to use was in high concentration. In most of the mice, hemorrhage then occurred at the cancer site. This was soon covered by a scab which in time was thrown off and the wound eventually healed. The cancer had disappeared, leaving no trace except a slight sparseness of hair over the region it once occupied. Five months after treatment there were no recurrences. In Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics last week Dr. Lewisohn gave the percentage...