Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-19 | Page 3 | Medical Science Plans Unprecedented Experiment to Combat Bloodpoisoning

Medical Science Plans Unprecedented Experiment to Combat B By Associated Press BERKELEY Cat BERKELEY Cat CaL July 19 Medical 19 Medical science prepared today to attempt an experiment claimed without precedent prece precedent prece-i prece dent In an effort to save the life Ufe of year old Fred Daugherty ill here from a rare rara form of ot blood poisoning Dr H H. W W. Crane attending physician physician phy phy- said pathologists have discovered discovered ered injections of at a goat serum scrum rushed by airplane from an eastern medical colle college e had developed antibodies in Daugherty's blood Antibodies are arc organisms which combat the toxins of disease If enough of at these antibodies were present Dr Crane said they would eliminate the the poison polson However no more serum is obtainable and Daugherty is so weak his physician expressed fear he would be unable towage to towage towage wage the battle batUe alone The plan as explained by Dr Crane is to Inoculate a healthy human subject subject subject sub sub- with the blood stream soldiers from Daugherty's arteries allow them to develop added strength and then reintroduce them Into the sick mans man's body by blood transfusion Dr Crane said pathologists pathologist and bacteriologists at the University of California were studying the plan and would probably reach a decision tomorrow The great creat difficulty he added is that it would take at least a month for the antibodies to develop in the healthy patient patient Daugherty's illness has been diagnosed diagnosed dlag nosed as septicemia or or blood poisoning poisoning poisoning poison poison- ing in the heart valve