A simple and ingenious method for the therapeutic administration of the serum of the blood of sheep and oxen has been lately devised by Dr Francis Vacher, the medical officer of Birkenhead.
The estimation of sugar may sometimes be of interest, as a means of ascertaining whether the aqueous portion of the butter consisted of mere water or of serum of milk.
To this preparation he gives the name "serum sanguinis exsiccatum.
He believes that his dried serum will prove a valuable nutrient in consumption, scrofula, diabetes, and loss of flesh.
We need them as one needs a medical laboratory for the manufacture of serums in the time of plague,--for the manufacture of the serum of political freedom, of the rights of people to develop and to learn to be free.
The skin under the postage stamps was thickened, necrotic, of a yellowish-white colour, puffy with the serum of the blood and leucocytes, and surrounded by an intensely red zone of inflammation.
In serum therapy antitoxins are artificially excited into being in the blood of beasts.
If I'm going to work on that serum project I'd better inspect the volunteers and line up the blood donors and look over old whatshisname's papers.
There has not been a single death from the trailmen's fever since you made the serum available.
If allowed to run on, the disease produces effusion of serum or of lymph into the cavity of the chest, in either case giving rise to adhesions, which cause embarrassment of breathing.
After the pimples have been out about three days they assume a white appearance, and are filled with serum and pus.
The precursor of the sitfast is always a swelling filled withserum and lymph, caused, as before stated, by badly-fitting harness.
White of egg; to distinguish it from seralbumen, or the albumen of the serum of the blood.
This has led to a routine for serum injection by graduated doses, which has been successful in averting serum sickness.
The depletion of the blood serum might be remedied by similar transfusions of salt and warm water.
These are quickly dissolved by phallin, the blood serum escaping from the blood vessels into the alimentary canal, and the whole system being rapidly drained of its vitality.
The presence of phallin in Amanita muscaria is possible, and its symptoms should be looked for in the red color of the blood serum discharged from the intestines.
On admission to this hospital the patient was in excellent health physically; Wassermann reaction with the blood-serum negative.
Help may also be obtained by increasing the patient's power of resistance to the effect of the poisoning by injections of a serum prepared by cultivation of the septic germs in question.
Bier's method of treatment by passive congestion, and the treatment by serum injection, will probably have been tried.
An anti-plague serumis sometimes used, though with doubtful results.
The passing out of serum or pus in or upon the tissues.
The poison that produces the diphtheria is taken and from this by a thorough and precise process the serum is made and injected into the body of a person who has diphtheria.
An accumulation of serum in the cellular tissues of the body.
Of late years great progress has been made by patient investigation, and a serum is now prepared for the treatment of this disease.
Uhlenhuth, Nuttall, and others have established the fact that the blood-serum of a rabbit which has previously had human blood injected into it, forms a precipitate with human blood.
Blood is composed of two parts, the serum and the globules.
The serum absorbs and holds in solution carbonic acid in great quantity, but has no tendency either to part with it or to absorb oxygen.
If life is present, the boiling water will soon and unfailingly raise a blister where applied, and the blister will contain fluid, the serum of the blood.
The production of the serum blister being essentially a vital process, its production or non-production becomes an infallible test, and determines the question.
If treated at this stage by anti-anthrax serum a cure is often effected, but if treatment is delayed the disease quickly proves fatal, the patient dying in awful agony.
It is difficult to cultivate, but grows on glycerine agar and blood serum at blood-heat.
It is made by mixing three parts of ox-blood serum with one part of broth containing 1 per cent.
Blood serum is drawn from a jar of coagulated horse-blood, in which the serum has risen to the top.
There are various ways in which this "serum diagnosis" can be carried out.
During this time the blood naturally coagulates, the corpuscles falling as a dense clot to the bottom, and the faintly yellow serum rising to the top.
The casein is coagulated, and falls to the bottom of the vessel; the whey or serum rises to the top.
The simplest and quickest method is as follows: To ten drops of a twenty-four or forty-eight-hours-old neutral broth culture of the typhoid bacillus one drop of the blood serum to be tested is added.
Blood serum is perhaps the best, but, as Hewlett remarks, "If noserum tubes can be had, an egg may be used.
This is collected in sterilised tubes and coagulated in a special apparatus (the serum inspissator).
Blood serum would, however, coagulate at a temperature over 60° C.
The most prominent are, great turgescence of the vessels of the brain, with effusion of serum into the ventricles and at the base.
You see we make some specific serum when we are testing each donor and it works only against the sperm of that particular man.
I wouldn't use pooled serum from all types anyway.
Dunbar expected to confer passive immunity on the hay fever patient by transferring to him this horse serum with its antibodies.
Weichardt has since put on the market another hay fever specific, called graminol, which is the blood-serum of cattle that have fed on the offending grasses during the hay fever season.
While diphtheria antitoxin is harmless to the diphtheria patient, the serum of the pollen-immunized horse nearly killed the first patient Dunbar tried it on, who happened to be his assistant, a sufferer from hay fever.
It has been noted how Dunbar nearly killed his first patient by injecting the serum of the horse that had been immunized to pollen.
It reminds us of the many attempts to confer on the tuberculosis patient the natural immunity possessed by the jackass by injecting the patient with the bloodserum of that friend of man.
In many instances, acute cerebrospinal meningitis is changed in this way by drug and serum treatment or by the use of ice bags into the chronic, so-called incurable infantile paralysis.
Chapter XVII Vaccination The pernicious aftereffects of vaccination upon the system are similar to those of the various serum and antitoxin treatments.
The animals thus rendered immune yield a serum which may be used as a vaccin against anthrax, and which even possesses curative properties under certain conditions.
The serumof immunized animals possesses preventive and curative properties respecting the effects of typhoid bacilli.
On mixing the antitoxicserum of these animals in vitro with the red blood-corpuscles of the species furnishing the serum and of the hemolytic serum of eels, it is found that the blood-corpuscles kept quite well.
Nevertheless antidiphtheria serum must not be considered as an antidote; and in pathological diphtheria, the more serum is required the later it is used.
In certain diseases the blood serum may acquire a high degree of toxicity.
A quintillionth of a cubic centimeter of the serum per gramme weight of a live mouse suffices to protect the animal from an otherwise fatal quantity of tetanus toxin.
The immunized animals yield a serum which, mixed with tetanus cultures, renders these innocuous, and which enjoys an antitoxic power that borders on the marvelous.
The serummixed with some excipient, usually solid or semi-solid, until it becomes a paste, and furnished like dried serum on a holder.
In other words, the serum is efficient as vaccine virus simply by virtue of the solid particles which it contains.
The serum dried on a holder, as an ivory or bone point or a quill.
Hollerius, asserts and proves that the serum and pus in empyema, absorbed from the cavities of the chest into the pulmonary vein may be expelled and got rid of with the urine and feces through the left ventricle of the heart and arteries.
The doctors on Ndrikull, the most advanced of the other planets, at last managed to find a serum that would kill the plague--that is, they maintained it was their serum that had killed it.
She suffered absolutely no ill effects, so that the manifestations in his case were entirely due to idiosyncrasy and not to anything in the serum itself.
He suggests that he has become sensitized to horse serum and, as it did not exist before his experience with diphtheria serum, he, of course, connects that incident with the present tendency.
This serum is such a good culture medium that an acute abscess is likely to form--the acute bursitis of the surgeons.
It is quite impossible that the serum should affect favorably any of the underlying lesions of the disease any more than that these should be ameliorated by the wearing of shoes of special character or operations on the urethra.
We now realize the value of a salt-free diet for many conditions disturbing osmosis, and the presence of serum where it should not be.
The patient in this case, however, was distinctly improved in many ways after the antidiphtheritic serum was injected.
If continued pressure continues to be irritating, however, the water cushion proves unavailing and an inflammation of the overlying skin occurs with occasionally a spreading of infectious agents from the surface into the serum pocket below.
Restlessness, in the recumbent position, is usually nature's protest against the maintenance of a posture in which, owing to failure of circulation, there may be leakage of serum into the lung tissues with dangerous results.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "serum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
