Word: clots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthdays. Suffraget Carrie Chapman Catt, 74; David Lloyd George, 70; the famed clot of live chicken heart nursed by Dr. Alexis Carrel in the laboratory of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 21; Prohibition...
Scooping up a person's lost blood and putting it back into his veins is a risky procedure. The blood may clot. Blood cells may be injured. Germs may get into the fluid. But in emergency such blood may be strained through gauze and mixed with a solution of sodium citrate. Able Surgeon Morris did this, as he had done in emergencies before. Junior Evans' blood pressure became almost normal before he left the operating table. Last week he was on the way to recovery...
...taking meticulous care against cuts and bruises Professor Thomas F. Sanford of the University of California has lived for 65 years. Like the Princes of Spain, he is a hemophiliac. His blood does not clot. Death has been for him a leech against which he has ever been on guard. Last week he lowered his guard for the sake of a mortally risky operation on his bladder and prostate. Coincidentally he began to have his entire blood system washed out with blood from twelve one-time students of his English classes. Eventually he hopes-if Death does not parry precautions...
...friend came in. They talked and laughed. A half hour later Senator Caraway lay dead in his bed. A sudden blood clot in the coronary artery had killed...
...heart by way of the blood, affect the valves and keep them from closing tightly. Then there is a "leaky" heart. The walls of veins may become weak; then varicose veins. The arteries may become stiff and unyielding to the pulsating blood; this hardening of the arteries. A clot of blood may be caught (thrombosed) in a narrowed artery causing a damming of the blood flow and a bursting of the vessel...