Word: globulin
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Wash Your Hands." Infectious hepatitis may be forestalled if gamma globulin is given while the disease is incubating, but gamma globulin shots are painful, costly and scarce. The PHS's protective advice: "Wash your hands." Antibiotics have no effect, and once the disease takes root, doctors can do nothing but put their patients to bed, forbid alcohol, treat their symptoms and feed them a nutritious, vitamin-rich diet. In severe cases, ACTH and cortisonelike drugs may help to prevent coma and clear up jaundice...