Word: extract
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like to call themselves democrats, but so far they have merely laughed up their sleeves at the strutting Colonels, made no attempt to kick them out. One reason is that Argentines are so well off that nothing their Government does seems important. Their wheat, meat, linseed, wool, hides, tannic extract, and dairy products are snapped up by the United Nations at fancy prices. The figures are secret, but most of the food goes to armies in Europe and civilians in Great Britain...
...with heparin to 'keep it from clotting, separated the cells from the blood plasma, put the plasma in the icebox. She shook the cells up with a special salt solution, separated the salty liquid and kept it, threw the cells away. She calls the salty fluid her "extract." The plasma plus the extract constitutes her glue...
...first removed a small piece of skin from the test area and waited four days for healing to start. For grafting, she used a bit of skin from somewhere else on the same rat. As if using a new patent glue, she painted plasma on the grafting area, extract on the under side of the graft. Then she put the graft in place and held it a while with warm, wet cloths...
Plasma and extract mixed together can be used to save bloody stitches on a liver cut by a bullet, a blow or an operation. The doctors tried it on dog livers first, now use the method on people. The raw surfaces are painted with the mixture and held together about three minutes. Any spot still bleeding or unstuck is repainted. As with skin-grafting, results are 100% successful: "By the end of ten days, it is often difficult to find the line of incision without a microscope...
...plasma-extract mixture "gives definitely superior results" in mending spleens too, but "due to the intrinsic structure of the spleen itself," does not always succeed...