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...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...
...Lucas-Green bill was aimed at transferring the machinery of soldier balloting from State hands to a Federal War Ballot Commission. The longer the Senate held the Lucas-Green bill, the more it seemed to tick like a bomb. Several members struggled courageously to extract the fuse. Finally, at week's end, the whole infernal-looking thing was thrown out. In its place, the Senate passed what amounted to a pious resolution: let the individual states conduct elections, as always. Let them arrange for their own absentee soldiers to vote. (This arrangement, followed in the 1942 elections...