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Foremost among these discoveries are been the isolation of quinine by Woodward and Doering, the separation of blood plasma into its various chemical components by Dr. Cohn, the invention of an apparatus for transferring whole blood within the battle lines by Majors Emerson and Ebert, the gathering of much evidence that cancer is caused by glandular disturbances by Drs. Lieberstein, Hill and Feiser, and a new treatment for goiter by Dr. Astwood...
...England, two Harvard Medical School specialists, Majors Charles Emerson and Richard Ebert, have devised an apparatus for transferring blood within battle lines weighing only 34 pounds, which can be used to draw blood from a healthy donor and to inject it into the veins of a wounded soldier in five minutes...
Transfusion Apparatus Devised...
...expert is 32-year-old Sir Nelson King Johnson of the air Ministry. He and his staff were consutled for every Commando raid and for the landings in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. Sir Nelson believes weather secrets are hidden in the upper air, uses a special balloon apparatus for readings up to 50,000 feet...
...Condition of Man is Volume III of this massive project. Volumes I & II: Technics and Civilization, a history of man as a user of tools, machines and apparatus (TIME, May 7, 1934); The Culture of Cities, the growth of the modern "megalopolis" (TIME, April 18, 1938). Like the first two volumes, The Condition of Man is erudite, lengthy (467 pages), cocksure. It is jampacked with the "tangled elements of Western man's spiritual history," from the Mosaic tablets to the New Deal. Author Mumford is usually dogmatic, often insensitive, occasionally discerning. Sometimes he writes with the vehemence...