More on Bogomoletz

Recent reports on Professor Bogomoletz' ACS serum for improving tissue resistance and prolonging life (TIME, Jan. 17) left many questions (on dosage, duration of treatment, etc.) unanswered. From Moscow last week came some of the answers:

> Contrary to earlier reports, two tiny injections do not last a lifetime. Treatment is a ten-day course of injections which may be repeated as needed for resisting disease or restoring vigor (e.g., a certain cancer patient gets three courses a year). The course: three tiny injections every three days until twelve have been given.

> ACS has not yet been used much on children, because their tissue resistance is naturally high. But it helps a scarlet fever case if given before the patient has been ill three days. Professor Bogomoletz thinks it might be used to stimulate growth in underdeveloped children.

> Controlled experiments on wounded soldiers show that, with ACS treatment, a wound which would ordinarily take as long as six months to heal now takes only a month.

>Best animal for serum experiments is the rabbit. Serum for the purpose is made by inoculating rams with rabbit spleen and marrow cells, making an extract from their blood.

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