Lecithin in its natural state, or that which is normally found in serums which quicken venom, such as horse-serum, even when heated to 65° C.
This protective action of normal serums has already been observed by Langer; it is perhaps attributable to the cholesterin that they contain.
These different methods of control enable us to verify the activity of antivenomous serums with great exactness, without the necessity of having recourse to experiments upon animals.
It is easy, however, to obtain active serums specific against the coagulant venoms; it is sufficient to treat these animals by inoculation with progressively increasing doses of the same venoms unheated.
In a few months we succeed in obtaining serums very active against these different venoms.
Experience shows that we may consider as good for therapeutic use serums which, in a dose of 0·05 c.
The experiment proved to Noc that, contrary to the ideas of Ehrlich and his pupils, and conformably to the results obtained by Bordet with serums and toxins, the neutralisation of venom takes place in a variable ratio.
They have found it absolutely useless and superfluous to hunt for drugs and serums to kill the typhoid and tuberculosis bacilli in these, the two most destructive diseases afflicting the human family.
Every few days we see in the daily papers reports of new serums and antitoxins which are claimed to cure or create immunity to certain diseases.
All feverish diseases are more or less interfered with or suppressed by antiseptics, antipyretics, serums and antitoxins.
Therefore, we claim that there is no necessity for the employment of poisonous drugs, serumsand antitoxins for this purpose.
The vaccines, serums and antitoxins of medical science are prepared from these bacterial excrements and from extracts made of the bodies of bacteria.
When the antitoxins and directly curative serums seemed about to make for themselves a place in therapeusis, it looked for a time as though this personal element might be entirely superseded.
A number of serums of one kind or another were reported as beneficial for Graves' disease.
The same mechanism explains the specificity of the serums of vaccinated animals.
That is why differentserums are preventive in different degrees.
Not only that, but too often it turns out that it is proper food selection, cleanliness, personal effort and restraint advocated by doctors as substitutes for serums and drugs, which excites the opprobrium of medical coteries.
Let us stop the drugs and serums and use common-sense hygiene of the body instead.
What is the use of making the flat statement that vaccinations and serums never aid in the cure of disease, when any man can see with his own eyes the proof that they do?
That the practice is no more universally applicable than are immune serums and that it has been and is still being grossly overexploited is undoubted.
Often in serums the poison elements are retained, but not the nutritive.
It was as follows: "Serums have not yet been introduced which produce immunity from Spanish Influenza.
Finally, as regards serums and specifics, the judgment of Dr.
To return to the subject proper: The summing up as to the efficacy of inoculation, drugs, serums and specifics for Influenza may best be found in the supplements to the U.
An interesting example of how particular serums may be employed for the detection of particular poisons has been furnished by Dr.
Calmette, have negatived its action, and it has thus been indicated how protective serums may be successfully employed for the detection of poisons.
They take medicine or injections of serums or they are operated upon.
Now, these harmless serums become poisonous when they have been taken from animals which have been first treated with the blood or the organs of other species of animals.
All the anti-pneumonic serums which have hitherto been prepared have turned out to have little efficacy; but there is no reason to give up the hope that this problem will yet be solved.
There is now, in biological science, a new chapter upon such serums, which have been called cytotoxic serums because they are able to poison the cells of organs.
I touched on the existence of animal serums that have the power of dissolving the blood corpuscles of other species of animals.
We have here to do with something analogous to what has been observed in the cases of serums used to arrest infectious disease.
It is for this reason that these animals, and particularly the horse, are used in the preparation of the serums employed in medicine.
It is for this reason that these animals and particularly the horse, are used in preparation of the serums employed in medicines.
These well-known facts would prove the horse and the ass a nearer relative than the ape, since serums are not made from the blood of the ape.
Vaccine matter is taken from the cow and serums from the horse, not from any species of monkey, to which we do not seem to be related at all.
New York City, relative to some alleged serums that Dr.
The element of danger existing in the indiscriminate use of serums intravenously is, in my opinion, increased by the addition of the substances mentioned, and it would be unwise to encourage the general use of any such remedies.
Serums and Vaccines With respect to serums and vaccines in influenza, there are certain simple facts and considerations that physicians will do well to keep in mind at this times.
It is a fair assumption that however the preparation may have been made originally, it is not now made in such a manner as to bring it under the federal laws governing the preparation of serums and similar preparations.
Furthermore from theoretical standpoint serums need not be given in this way.
This being the case, efforts at treatment and prevention by serums and vaccines, now hurriedly undertaken, are simply experiments in a new field, and the true value of the results cannot be predicted by any one.
Having been endorsed by the Committee on Serums and Vaccines the Council adopted the report and declared M.
On the recommendation of the Committee on Serums and Vaccines, the Council declared “Sherman’s Mixed Vaccine No.
The Abbott Laboratories submitted specimens of the products, the advertising matter therefor and a considerable list of references to current literature; all of which was transmitted to the Committee on Serums and Vaccines for consideration.
We encourage the enterprising doctor in his giddy chase after the nimble dollar, as he produces anti-toxin serums to order.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "serums" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
