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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...
...mind of Santayana is restless and far-traveled; the flow of his thought is never the steady controlled intensity that he admires in the ancients, but glints with unexpected intellectual play over the current-like foam above the rapids of a river. After the long years when the very grace of his writing gave the impression that it lacked substance, his especial gift, intuitive, sympathetic, has come into its own. The ceremoniousness and hospitality of the Latin American mind are his, as is its sudden poetic insights, its brilliant intellectual discoveries that are tossed aside, like a master artist...
Although such foams had been in use for 50 years, Boyd thought he could invent a better one-and did. To manufacture and sell it, he formed National Foam, soon was doing a tidy worldwide business selling foam and equipment to protect oilfields and refineries in Ploesti, Hamburg, Tokyo, Yokohama. Later, aided by his chemistry-smart vice president, George Gordon Urquhart, he turned a second trick: creation from soybeans of a new super-efficient foam, which he called Aer-O-Foam...
Promptly, National Foam broke ground for a new plant outside Philadelphia, turned out its first batch of bean soup seven weeks later. The Navy piled on orders. It put a generous supply aboard its fighting ships and stockpiled it all over the world. In one Pacific sea fight 118 warship fires were reportedly snuffed out by foam. And Foam's gross fizzed up from less than $500,000 into $6.000,000 this year...