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...progress is advancing from the lab to the bedside. Factor VIII is now being extracted from human plasma and concentrated about 30 times. It is given by intravenous drip to victims of hemophilia A and von Willebrand's disease when they have crises of massive bleeding. Except in such emergencies, the usual treatment for all the clotting disorders remains a transfusion of fresh whole blood or plasma-not to replace blood that the patient has lost, but to supply the missing clotting factor and thus keep him from losing more...
...blushingly refuses to get undressed in front of Hepburn, steps firmly under a shower and starts soaping himself with all his clothes on. When Hepburn looks horrified, Grant makes a manly effort to reassure her. Fingering the material of his suit, he explains with an engaging grin: "Drip...
...Leibowitz made victory the harder and slower by a newspaper interview in which he described the jury members as "bigots whose mouths are slits in their faces, whose eyes pop out at you like frogs, whose chins drip tobacco juice, bewhiskered and filthy." The Alabama judge used the published statement as an excuse to postpone the trials. Sam Leibowitz was already sounding off in the free-wheeling manner which would later get him into continuing trouble on the bench...
...Soon after I took office, the paint began to drip from the license plates," he said. The scandal had developed from the failure of officials to inspect the paint they were receiving, "and I couldn't believe our government was being operated that...
...raining hard on Wednesday when the trial resumed; some water began to leak through the roof and drip down next to the defense attorney's table. The little wizened bailiff brought a spittoon over to catch the increasing flow of drops...