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...after-effects of an atomic bomb blast would probably he lessened because of current research by Harvard's "blood man," Dr. Edwin J. Cohn. Even though men can't preserve whole blood, Cohn has learned how to preserve many blood components individually, and the separation of blood would be of vital importance in the event of an atomic blast...
This work, under the direction of Cohn, who is Higgins University Professor, requires donors and in its experimental phases is taking jaundice sufferers who were refused by the Red Cross in the December PHH drive. These men have been going over to contribute there, where their permanent reject classification is discounted...
...Cohn has repeatedly stressed that blood economy demands transfusing only such blood components as a particular patient needs. Thus all available blood would be used most effectively in surgery it is often necessary to replace blood lost during an operation with whole blood, but in most clinical conditions only a part of the blood is deficient and need be supplied...
Blood fractionation, however, evolved from the still continuing search for non-human blood substitutes. Twenty-five years ago Cohn started to study hemoglobin in red cells, but the first real fruit came in the spring of 1940 when the German offensive had already begun on the continent and blood was needed for casualties...
...Cohn and a group of doctors told the National Academy of Sciences that this medicine, which is derived from the human blood, may be used to combat shock and treat burns. The scientists expect it will replace both plasma and serum albumin, an anti-shock medicine, in use against war wounds or atom-bomb casualties...