Word: cooksey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the Red Cross began to bank blood, thousands of gallons of red blood corpuscles have been thrown down the drain-only the blood plasma is used. Dr. Warren Cooksey, technical supervisor of Detroit's blood bank, thought there ought to be something these discarded red cells, which constitute 46% of the whole blood, would be good for. Last winter he began supplying Detroit hospitals with batches of specially processed red corpuscles for experimental transfusions (TIME, Feb. 15). Last week Philadelphia Naval Hospital doctors, who had the same idea, reported that red-cell transfusions had proved spectacularly successful...
...Warren Cooksey, technical supervisor of Detroit's blood bank, thought the red blood cells should be saved if possible-they are the material needed in a large proportion of hospital transfusions (e.g., anemia), are ordinarily given to patients in whole blood purchased from professional donors at $25 a pint. Dr. Cooksey found that, mixed with a simple salt solution, red cells will keep in good condition for a little over a week, provided processing takes place within an hour of bloodletting. At his suggestion, the blood bank will soon send Detroit hospitals 800 pints of red blood cells...
...Beautiful People has a boozy, poetical father (Curtis Cooksey) living with an adolescent son and daughter in a decaying mansion on a San Francisco hill. They are supported by a monthly pension check mistakenly addressed tor a dead man. The daughter (Betsy Blair) tends the mice in the house and believes it is they who sometimes spell out her name in flowers on the floor (actually it is just Brother, assisting the family poesy). Brother (Eugene Loring) writes "books"-each consisting of a single pregnant word. One "book" reads "tree." He can also "hear" another vagrant brother in New York...