Author: Peter B. Gahan
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: circulating, serum, plasma, acids, nucleic, hong, kong, november, proceedings, international, conference
Number of Pages: 285
Published: 2010-10-27
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 9048193818
ISBN-13: 9789048193813

Author: Bernard Cooper
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Keywords: memoirs, serum, truth
Number of Pages: 225
Published: 1996-03-21
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 039574539X
ISBN-13: 9780395745397

Witty, affecting, and intimate memoirs by the author of Maps to Anywhere describes the events of his life, from ninth-grade algebra, to his mother’s purchase of a freezer, to an encounter with a psychiatrist, as he learns to cope with his own desire, love, loss, and disaffection.

Author: Herbert M. Shelton
Publisher: Health Research
Keywords: evils, serum, vaccine
Number of Pages: 46
Published: 1996
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 078730784X
ISBN-13: 9780787307844

"Do we really know what we are being immunized for? Are vaccinations really safe? Herbert Shelton brings light to how vaccinations and serums came about, uncovering the truth how people were enticed to believe it was for the better. Shelton brings this vast information from many articles of The Journal of The American Medical Association, Public Health Records and many years of testimonials and newspaper articles."

Author: Debbie S. Miller
Publisher: Walker Books for Young Readers
Keywords: trail, iditarod, blazing, race, serum
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2006-02-21
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0802777236
ISBN-13: 9780802777232

Ride shotgun with the heroic mushers whose bravery inspired the Iditarod.In the winter of 1925, Nome, Alaska, was hit by an unexpected and deadly outbreak of diphtheria. Officials immediately quarantined the town, but the only cure for the community of more than 1,400 people was antitoxin serum and the nearest supply was in Anchorage—hundreds of miles of snowbound wilderness away. The only way to get it to Nome was by dogsled.Twenty teams braved subzero temperatures and blizzard conditions to run over 600 miles in six days in a desperate relay race that saved the people of Nome. Several of t

Author: Derek S. Linton
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Keywords: memoirs, american, philosophical, society, therapy, serum, immunology, von, behring, infectious, disease, emil
Number of Pages: 580
Published: 2005-10-30
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0871692554
ISBN-13: 9780871692559

In 1901 Emil von Behring received the first Nobel Prize in medicine for serum therapy against diphtheria, a disease that killed thousands of infants annually. Diphtheria serum was the first major cure of the bacteriological era & its development generated novel procedures for testing, standardizing, & regulating drugs. Since the intro. of antibiotics, Behring & his work have largely been forgotten. In the first English-language scientific biography of Behring, Derek S. Linton seeks to restore Behring s reputation. He emphasizes Behring s seminal contributions to the study of infect