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...this idea it is but a step to a bigger theory of health & sickness which Dr. Kahn (now at Ann Arbor on the faculty of the University of Michigan) has evolved. Some of the body's cells are constantly being destroyed, and in the 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...
...many of the co-workers who have been associated with Dr. Cohn in the Department of Physical Chemistry at the Medical School in developing methods for the separation of the parts of the blood so as to make available as many as possible of its diverse collular, protein and lipid components, concentrated as specific therapeutic agents and of value in different conditions related to their natural functions...
...Carter, widowed mother of three, worked for four years to isolate from the red cells of Rh-positive blood some substance that distinguishes it from Rh-negative blood. At last she got a "lipid" (fat-like compound) which she believes to be a "hapten" (a neutralizer of antibodies). Injected into a pregnant woman whose Rh-negative blood has formed antibodies against the incompatible blood of her unborn Rh-positive baby, hapten protects the baby's blood, and allows him to be born in normal health. Injected into a living but erythroblastic baby, it quickly restores the baby...
...mineral oil for constipation; 3) forced feedings of cod-liver or halibut-liver oil to rebellious children. Often the oil slides down the throat into the lungs, where it clogs up air sacs, inflames delicate tissues, forms abscesses and scars. Victims develop a hacking cough, run a low fever. Lipid or oil pneumonia is difficult to diagnose, for few physicians know much about it, and different oils cause different symptoms. In old people oil pneumonia is sometimes mistaken for cancer of the lung. Pneumonia caused by bacteria can be successfully combated with serums and sulfapyridine or sulfathiazole; for lipid pneumonia...
...When lipid pneumonia was discovered 15 years ago, doctors believed it was a children's disease. But, said Dr. Cannon last fortnight, "accumulated evidence has proved . . . that it affects all ages. . . . It is now certain that healthy persons may develop severe types of lipid pneumonia, especially if they use medicated liquid petrolatum intranasally in large quantities over long periods of time. . . . Abandonment of this type of medication will be slow because of the fact that so many persons have used oily nose drops with no apparent ill effects...