Word: bloodstreams
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Melvin H. Knisely of the University of Chicago (on loan to the University of Tennessee) has taken colored movies of the Battle of Malaria. This week, at the Louisville meeting of the Southern Medical Association, Dr. Knisely showed his movies-the first ever taken of disease in a living bloodstream. For his stars Dr. Knisely had chosen five malarial monkeys. He anesthetized them, exposed their abdominal cavities. Through the microscope's eyepiece he photographed the changes in the tiny blood vessels on the abdominal lining...
Malaria is caused by an amebalike parasite of the genus Plasmodium. The parasite, which enters man's bloodstream through a mosquito bite, often destroys over a million red blood corpuscles per cubic millimetre in one bout of malaria...
...Virgil Kinney Hancock, noted Seattle obstetrician, began to try irradiation on hopeless streptococcic and staphylococcic bloodstream infections, with great success. Several years later, he was followed by Drs. Elmer William Rebbeck of Pittsburgh and Henry Alfred Barrett of Manhattan. Last year, after they told him of several thousand successful cases, Dr. George Miley of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital began to put in full time on irradiation, working up case histories, preparing careful fever charts, blood-count tables...
...model irradiating machine, an oblong box of stainless steel, about two feet long. All week long, young Dr. Miley, aided by his associate Dr. Alfred Tuttle, demonstrated the machine to thousands of curious doctors, showed them a sheaf of experimental records from Hahnemann. Of 27 irradiated cases of septicemia (bloodstream infection), said he, 22 recovered; 71 irradiated cases of other bloodstream infections, including peritonitis and septic abortion, all recovered...
...slowly dripping its weaker relative, mapharsen, into the bloodstream for eight hours a day, Drs. Hyman and Leifer and the third associate, Dr. Louis Chargin, eliminate the "shock" of relatively large injections, build up blood tolerance to huge concentrations of the essential arsenic. During a five-day treatment, a patient absorbs about two and a half gallons of mapharsen solution...