America 7ewish Periodical Cotter
Friday, September
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27, 1946
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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
among the miracle men of medi- was cut out for distinction. De-
spite the handicaps of a new • lan-
cine.
Another immigrant—in somewhat guage and new customs, he quick-
the same sense as Dr. Lowew — ly obtained his bachelor of science
who came to these shores to be- and master of science degrees
come a benefactor of mankind is from Rutgers and at the age of
the brilliant Dr. Selman Waks- 30 was granted his doctorate from
man of Rutgers University, dis- the University of California. He
coverer of streptomycin. Like pen- specialized in soil microbiology
icillin, streptomycin combats ter- and has taught at Rutgers since
rible disease and it has proved 1918.
successful where penicillin failed
The professor worked on a sim-
to get a foothold, working notably ple theory in attempting to find
against tuberculosis, typhoid fe- the new and powerful medicine.
ver, whooping cough, undulant fe-
"We know certain microbes will
ver and gastro-intestinal infec- destroy others," he said. "So we
tions.
Dr. Waksman came to America
from Priluka, a small town near
Kiev in Russia, in 1910. His fam-
ily looked upon America as the
typical land of opportunity, and
did not see much of that In Czar-
ist Russia. From the very first he
tried to isolate a microbe which
would be the most effective against
other types of microbes, such as
those which 'cause typhoid and
tuberculosis. When we found this
microbe, we built it up and fat-
tened it under ideal conditions.
Then we robbed it of its fighting
Charles Rosenbloom, chairman of the United Palestine Ap-
peal and of the United Jewirli Appeal, speaking at the recent
foundation ceremonies of Irgtin Basra, newest Palestinian settle-
ment for, veterans of the Jewish Brigade, said his fellow Jews
in America "would be greatly encouraged and highly inspired
by the news of the construction work going on in this country."
At the same time Palestinian Jewish leaders paid high tribute
to American Jewry, pointing out that it was their generous
contributions to the United Jewish Appeal's $100,000,000 cam-
paign which gave new impetus to the intensive program of
upbuilding the Jewish National Home. Mr. Rosenbloom has
been touring Palestine along with other leaders of the U.J.A.
and U.P.A. observing the development program financed by
both agencies.
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chemicals and used this substance
for ourselves against typhoid or
t.b. In humans."
In 1944, the drug first appeared,
but Its use was confined to Army
patients. Three lives were saved
the first week it was applied. The
only trouble was that the drug
could not be produced in suffi-
ciently large quantities to take
care of all emergencies. It must
be grown slowly under laboratory
conditions and, in addition, is
more expensive to produce than
penicillin.
Hundreds of frantic calls came
in from civilians, begging for
streptomycin for critical cases.
Now these appeals will be an-
swered quickly, for 15 companies
in the country are making it and
some are building special plants.
In a few months a large commer-
cial supply of the drug will be on
the market.
While the accomplishments of
men like Dr. Chain and Dr. Waks-
man are already inscribed in the
hall of fame and that of Dr.
Lowew still awaits the critical
test of time, there are many great
Jewish scientists who have been
patiently exploring some of the
other mysteries of the world of
microbes and bacteria. Space, of
course, does not permit describing
their achievements or hopes, but
one man in the Midwest is worthy
of mention.
He is Dr. Harry Goldblatt of
Western Reserve University in
Ohio, the- foremost experimenter
with anti-reticular cytoxic serum
(commonly called ACS) In Ameri-
ca. ACS is the discovery of a
Russian who was half-Jewish, Dr.
A. A. Bogomolets, who died seve-
ral weeks ago. It is a fascinating
drug in that—if startling predic-
tions come true — it can prolong
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life to 125 or 150 years. However,
neither Dr. Bogomolcts nor Dr.
Goldblatt ever made such claims
for it.
What is certain, however, is that
the connective tissue of the hu-
man body deteriorates and when
it does, what we know as old age
sets in. Dr. Bogomolets discov-
ered a serum—ACS--which when
injected gives new life to indivi-
duals. He discovered it in a small
town in Southern Russia where
an amazing number of men and
women were over 100 years of age.
Their tissue was young and he de-
duced that this was the difference
between them and prematurely
aged people.
In 1936, after 12 years of pre-
liminary experiments with ani-
mals, Dr. Bogomolets used ACS on
humans and found it a miracle
drug in treating infected wounds,
ostemyelitis, arthritis, gangrene,
lung abscesses, bone fractures
and cancer after operation, the
latter to prevent re-occurrence.
Now Dr. Goldblatt is carrying
on this work, with a large grant
made by American benefactors.
At present he is compiling an.
swers to questionnaires which in-
dicate how the first 3,000 patients
treated with it have fared.
Much will be heard from Dr.
Goldblatt and much will be heard
of ACS.
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