Word: bleeds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Force was working harder than ever on a job hopefully christened "operation strangle." If Cannon's tacticians spoke medical terminology they might have called it "arteriotomy," for they were quite literally cutting the German supply arteries. His Mitchells, Marauders, Warhawks and Thunderbolts were trying, very forcefully, to bleed Marshal Kesselring's stubborn divisions to death by severing - and keeping severed - the marshal's difficult north-south rail communications...
Navy doctors call it "fourway infusion." Working on marines wounded at Guadalcanal, surgeons found that some patients would bleed to death if they waited for plasma to dribble in through one tube, developed a quicker method of transfusion. Last week in Manhattan Captain French Robert Moore, a surgeon who is a veteran of Guadalcanal and Tarawa, described the new method...
Allied air objectives were still twofold: to smash up German war power (especially aircraft industry) on the ground; to bleed the Luftwaffe white in grinding air combat. Allied airmen still hoped the pace would burn out the Luftwaffe by summer...
...chemical that makes cattle bleed to death, Dicumarol, is now saving human lives. If a man takes Dicumarol capsules before or after an operation, dangerous blood clots may not form in his veins. The discoverer of the drug, Dr. Karl Paul Link, professor of biochemistry at the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station, recently told the Harvey Society at the New York Academy of Medicine about...
...patient taking Dicumarol need not fear that he will bleed to death. Dr. Link explained that it can be counteracted by 1) a small transfusion, 2) a large dose (an injection) of vitamin K, the antihemorrhagic vitamin in leafy vegetables...