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To prevent bleeding in hæmophilics, intra-venous or subcutaneous injections of fresh blood serum, taken from the human subject, the sheep, the dog, or the horse, have proved useful. If fresh serum is not available, anti-diphtheritic or anti-tetanic serum or trade preparations, such as hemoplastin, may be employed.
The anti-diphtheritic serum is now kept in readiness at all our missions in Alaska, and the disease seems to have ceased its depredations; but it has taken terrible toll of the native people. We wished to stay with the nurse until the sickness should be done, but she would not hear of it, and insisted upon the resumption of our journey.
The anti-diphtheritic and the anti-tetanic act by neutralising the specific toxins of the disease antitoxic serums; the anti-streptcoccic and the serum for anthrax act upon the bacteria anti-bacterial serums.
"Oh, you mustn't, you mustn't!" she cried under his kisses. "Do you not know it's catching? I may have it on me now." "Oh, God, I hope you haven't, you precious thing...." "I don't expect so. I've had an anti-diphtheritic serum injected. Science is a wonderful thing. But you might get it." "That be damned." "Och, you great swearing thing!" she crooned delightedly, and nuzzled into his chest.
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