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...Startling Fact. To track down this mysterious something, Dr. Diamond and associates decided to check on all the blood used in 179 replacement transfusions. Each donor's sex, age, and other data were marked by punches on business machine cards. Then the cards were run through a tabulating machine. From the machine came a startling fact: of 137 infants with erythroblastosis who got the Rh-negative blood of male donors, 27 died; of 42 who got women's blood, not one died...
...National Scholarship calls for a candidate from "that part of the State of Iowa now served by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad." The donor of the fund held the controlling interest in the line in 1909 when he gave the scholarship...
Said Dr. Jesus Bacala of the Philippines: artificial insemination, in cases where a donor's semen is used without the husband's knowledge or consent, is obviously immoral, obnoxious and illegal. More thorny are cases in which the husband's consent is given. Said Bacala: "The fact that a woman has to obtain semen other than her husband's has an adulterous tinge." Besides, the methods of obtaining such semen involve, said he, either adultery, onanism, or, at the very least "a pollution...
...apparatus consists of a drum into which a donor's blood is put, to serve as a priming charge. The veins returning blood to the subject's heart are closed by clamps, and the blood from these veins is pumped into the machine. Revolved 50 to 100 times a minute, the blood spreads into a thin film on the sides of the drum. It absorbs oxygen, which is pumped into the drum, and gives off carbon dioxide, which is withdrawn. Then the refreshed blood is pumped back into the body through an artery. The machine is governed...
...Last week some of the visitors were being diverted to the nearby town of Roswell, N. Mex. by the new Hard wing of the Roswell Museum. It contained 31 of his lithographs and six of his spacious, sharply detailed paintings. The collection had been financed by an anonymous California donor, who planned to add more Kurd pictures each year...