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...medical magazines now in existence, a new one was added last week: the Journal of Neurosurgery. It brought news of two new medical materials, fibrin foam and fibrin film. They are made from human blood. For six months, Drs. Franc Douglas Ingraham and Orville Taylor Bailey of Boston have used them to stanch oozing blood and replace lost tissue in brain operations...
...Fibrin Foam is made of blood fibrinogen. It has a spongy consistency. Soaked before using in a solution of thrombin, it becomes fibrin, the framework of blood clots. The foam quickly and permanently stops oozing from small blood vessels and large veins, which no other material has ever been able to do. The surgeons sometimes leave some foam inside when a wound is closed. They found that the foam is rapidly absorbed...
...Fibrin Film, also made of fibrinogen, is used to replace lost dura, the coating of the brain. It disappears in a few months, is completely replaced by a living membrane of approximately its own thickness...
...Cornish moved Lazarus II to a seesaw-like device called a teeterboard. There he opened one of the terrier's thigh veins to admit a saline solution saturated with oxygen and containing the heart stimulant adrenalin, the liver extract heparin and some canine blood from which the fibrin (coagulating substance) had been removed. While he breathed gustily into the dog's mouth, his assistant rubbed the kinky-haired little body, rocked it on the teeterboard. The stimulant solution sank in a glass gauge as it seeped into the corpse through five feet of rubber tubing. In a little...
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