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Show ENDLESS CHAIN NOT MYSTICAL Doctor Fighting Influenza Explains How Curative Serum Went From Patient to Patient. The prevalence of inlluen.u und pneuiiK.nla with their high death rate makes It imperative to resort to heroic methods of treat mint rather than to FoMotO the accepted ones only. The lack of serum or other specific remedy for iufiticiiKa. writes Dr. Charles It. Humbert In the .Medical Record, to wilier with the Inability to obtuln .inlipnennmeoeeiis scrum forced me to use convalescent serum. The Iaidless Chain. If Is a well known fact that persons convalescing ironi pneumonia have nntl-bodles In i heir blood streams. As soon as the patients' condition permits, therefore, they are bled us much and as frequently frequent-ly as possible. Serum Is prepared and treated, and Is placed In stock. When another patient pa-tient comes in with pneumonia, treatment treat-ment Is begun. When convalescence sets in the above procedure Is repeated. repeat-ed. It Is a case of one gives serum to OWO, two gives seruta to three and so on, the procedure becoming endless. |