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...short, Scientist Kahn had developed the rifle. When he mixed the blood fluid from a syphilis patient with a substance prepared from fatty beef heart, the mixture quickly clouded and a deposit settled in the bottom of the test tube; with blood serum from a healthy individual, the clear fluid stayed clear. Thus was born the first simple and effective serum test for syphilis, and one of those in widest use today.* In popular lingo, Kahn tests are often called Wassermanns. Kahn, who took no cash for his discovery, lets the credit go too. Says...
...process part of their lipid (fat-like) content passes into the blood. The system then automatically develops antibodies which react mysteriously with the dead-cell lipids. In the test tube, these antibodies react, in what Kahn holds to be a definite and ascertainable pattern, with the fatty stuff from beef heart...
...human patients. Then, if the hormone proves effective in treating or in preventing infection, years must pass before it can be fully tested and produced in quantity. Often called the growth hormone, STH has been known for years, but only minute amounts are extracted from the pituitaries of beef cattle. So far, Selye has used 40 grams (about an ounce and a half...
...tubby, baby-faced little man, smoking a long cigar, pattered into the dining room of the National Press Club one day last week, ate a lunch of roast beef, carrots & peas with obvious zest, and sat back to hear himself introduced. Then Price Stabilizer Michael Vincent Di Salle got to his feet-an act which added little to his height-and glanced over his shoulder. "I still can't get used to people getting up when I'm introduced," he began. "I always look behind me to see if a bishop has walked in." He paused professionally...
Cartoonist Vicky last week recalled Shakespeare's description in King Henry V of the night before the battle of Agincourt, as Frenchmen stood around camp fires discussing the prowess that their English foes drew from a beef diet (see cartoon). Vicky did not think it necessary to remind Britons of the Duke of Orleans' comment: "Ay, but these English are shrewdly* out of beef...