16. On Alum Gargles

Alum Coagulation

On the Energy Levels of Chrome Alum

Effect of alum on methamphetamine screening tests.

The editorial by Diamandis [1] in Janu-ary discussed a report by Walker et al. [2], who used strand displacement amplification and fluorescence polarization (FP) to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The editorial placed particular emphasis on the homogeneous format of the assay. However, this aspect deserves to be expanded by an outline of the significance and evolution of combining DNA ampli-...

A study of H2 receptor antagonists in the treatment of chronic intractable pharyngitis.

In a controlled study of 75 patients suffering from chronic pharyngitis: 30 were treated with H2-receptor antagonist, 30 with H1-receptor antagonist, local decongestants and antiseptic gargles: and 15 treated with alum, salt or Dispirin gargles acted as controls. Best response was obtained with the first mode of treatment, raising the possibility of role of the H2-receptors in causing chronic p...

How alum works

For more than 70 years, alum has been used as a trusty aide to improve antibody responses to vaccines. But how this aluminum-containing compound boosts the response to vaccines has been a mystery. On page 869, Kool et al. expose its mysterious mechanism; they find that alum causes cells to produce a stim-ulator of dendritic cells (DCs). DCs were once the favored hypothetical link between alum a...