By John H. Heller
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Too much may produce lethal effects on systems other than the RES. How many new RE cells should be given? From a single or from several donors? These are but a few of the questions. About fifty patients have been treated in various hospitals in the United States thus far. None has lived. But with each failure, a little more is learned. Perhaps soon there will be enough knowledge to effect a cure. lethal treatment for a fatal disease and then, perhaps, out of A death As life. the clinicians work with these new tools put into their The Reticuhendothelial System 65 hands by basic research, the basic research man races on as fast as funds and hands will permit to provide new answers to well as old, problems.
Unfolding with promise. This group of cells is and extraordinarily exciting filled is called the reticuloendothelial sys- long Latin names which are affixed to so many the early descriptive days, things in medicine go back to are in the and themselves, names, descriptive. Later knowlbut as so often hapedge frequently makes them obsolete; tem. The is named it is difficult to change it. " The cells which com- promise this system are known as RE cells. A good deal of the interest in the RE cells stems from the fact that they are guardian cells, without which man would soon succumb to his enemies.
Some had to borrow. All that the dream would turn into reality. lived out of their had faith Finally, we received a major grant from a large corporation and we diversified a medical-instrument manufacturer. could really begin. We moved our Now quarters to a 125- year-old goat barn, also in Ridgefield. It was in frightful shape. One could look up from the basement through two floors and the roof and see the blue sky. We began to build The pace seemed terribly slow. Bench by bench, partition by partition, progress inched forward.
