Word: toxin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there no cure for epilepsy?" many have asked. No, none. Yet in Moscow last week a truly well-known physiologist, Professor Pavlof, froze part of a dog's brain. The dog developed epilepsy. In its veins Pavlof found a toxin which he believes to be the specific cause of the epileptic condition. He immunized a healthy beast by injecting it with the toxin. "If this works with humans," his assistant Dr. Speranski, told a concourse of physicians at Leningrad, "Pavlof has a cure for epilepsy...
...Bela Schick, Austrian inventor of the "Schick tests" and the toxin-anti-toxin serum for diphtheria, learned last week that his serum could not be permitted to freeze...
...accidents at Concord and Bridgewater have been proved definitely to have been due not only to the freezing of the preparation but also to its prolonged duration in the frozen state. This causes the toxin to dissociate from the antitoxin, the latter becoming insoluble, and a small amount of toxin remaining free. This train of circumstances was not known before...
...isolated a streptococcus* from a patient with scarlet fever with which they have been able to produce scarlet fever in two out of ten volunteers who asked for the innoculation. Now they have discovered that the fluid which may be filtered from growths of these bacteria apparently contains a toxin, and that it may be used for tests which will show whether or not a person is likely to become infected with scarlet fever on exposure to the disease. The test used is a specific skin test much like the Schick test that is used for testing immunity to diphtheria...
...Philip Castleman will speak tomorrow at 4 o'clock at the Medical School on Longwood avenue. The subject of his lecture, which is open to the public, is "The Toxin-antitoxin Protection Against Diphtheria...