Word: clots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harold Milton Trusler and colleagues performed an autopsy to find out why the child had died under such "ideal" medical conditions. They saw that the baby's tissues were "tremendously waterlogged," her blood so dilute that it could not clot. The classic treatment for burns, they decided was clumsy and "fallacious." Last week, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, they told of their new method for treating "burn shock...
...Schroeder operated on Mrs. Leota Hayden in Chicago's Ravenswood Hospital. After the operation Mrs. Hayden needed a blood transfusion. She had Type IV blood; therefore the donor's blood had to be of the same type. Transfusions of Types I, II, or III blood would clot in her serum, block her circulation...
...person whose blood does not clot in three to six minutes is regarded by doctors as a poor surgical or obstetrical risk. No satisfactory chemical is known which will shorten the coagulation time of bleeders, but in last week's Science Dr. Aaron Lee Lichtman and Physiologist William Harold Chambers of Cornell University Medical College announced the discovery of a new compound which greatly reduces the clotting period in animals...
Last week one of the bypaths along the proletarian road wound to a temporary terminus in the Eagles Club Auditorium at Kenosha, Wis. Assembled there, in a confused and earnest clot, were 150 delegates to the 21st national convention of the Socialist Party. Among them few were more confused, none was more earnest than their three-time candidate for the Presidency of the U. S., grey Norman Thomas...
...blow made premature world headlines as a "slap in the face," but it was a box on the ear, and internal bleeding began between the layers of the left eardrum. A blood clot formed, which caused the eardrum to burst, and at latest reports Commander Bower was said by the doctors to be in a "serious condition...