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Show Blood Serum Used As Curative in Desperate Cases CHICAGO, Oct IS A blood serum used as a curative in tho eastionly in desperate cases of influenza will be tried out in Chicago and Illinois, the state influenza commission agreed tonight. to-night. The commission is faced with ja difficult problem to obtain the curative cura-tive in sufficient quantity as it was stated that eight ounces of blood must be taken from a patient who has sur-vlded sur-vlded the malady to produce three ounces of serum. The commission received first hand reports of experiments with this serum from Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, of tho Chicago health department, who returned re-turned today from an eastern trip. The cpmmission laid emphasis on the fact that the serum should not be confused con-fused with the vaccine now in use. The vaccino is a preventive and the serum is' used as a curative only in very bad cases. |