Medicine: Capsules, Sep. 7, 1953

CJ With the demand for gamma globulin already far greater than the supply, three Harvard investigators reported on another use for it: preventing the spread of infectious hepatitis (a liver infection causing jaundice). The Harvardmen studied 81 families where jaundice had broken out, found that the disease spread within the family 48% of the time when G.G. was not given. In families where G.G. was given preventively after the first outbreak, only one additional case turned up.

ΒΆ Three Decatur, Ill. doctors kept tab on 1,000 consecutive house calls, last week reported their...

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