Word: apparatuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Durham's City Councillors had approved the plant. As blueprinted, it would rise above the River Wear 300 yards from the city line. Its smokestacks and cooling apparatus would undoubtedly smear the cross-river view of the cathedral's square-towered majesty. Stiffening his sinews, summoning up his blood, Dean Alington cried: "This proposed erection is an outrage. I shall fight it with all my power...
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...
Several hundred experimental transfusions have been made with enlisted men volunteering to test it, pumping blood out of one arm and sending it back into the other. Majors Emerson and Ebert themselves submitted to the most crucial tests and in no case did a fever reaction occur. The new apparatus should be extremely valuable in saving the lives of wounded soldiers on the field...