Word: geyer
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...Ryoichi Naito, the founder of Green Cross, came across an article in Der Spiegel while traveling in West Germany. The article outlined the research on artificial blood done by Dr. Robert Geyer, head of the Nutrition Department at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Naito immediately caught a plane a Boston and dropped in on Dr. Geyer. As the saying goes. "The rest is history...
Gever had made significant progress in the application of fluorocarbons as a blood substitute. Fluorocarbons readily absorb and transmit oxygen, as does blood Dr. Geyer was able to overcome a major obstacle, the formation of bubbles in the solution when injected into rate, by employing a different mixture. Another difficulty was eliminated by Dr. Leland C. Clark Jr. professor of Research Pedantries at Children's Hospital in Cincinnati. Test animals did not exhale the fluorocarbons but rather collected the substance in their bodies especially in the liver Clark experimented until be found a fluorocarbon emulsion that would be expelled...
...Naito used the work of Dr. Geyer, Dr. Clark, and another scientist at the University of Pennsylvania to initiate his own industrial venture. Green Cross subsequently made its own discoveries such as processes for fluorocarbon mass production and stabilization of the substance for freezing. Still the majority of the necessary research was done in the United States...
...Geyer should not be criticized for aiding Green Cross in its development of artificial blood. As a member of the medical profession. Dr. Geyer is committed to promoting the advancement of life-saving technology, and artificial blood will save lives. Fluosol molecules are smaller than those of blood and could more easily penetrate clots in heart attack victims. For members of religions preventing blood transfusions such as Jehovah's Witnesses, a loss of blood may no longer signal death as Fluosol is not really blood...
...wholly disproportionate to true public interest. Yet this seems not the case. For a hundred years, war reporters have provided a basic service, apart from increasing the profits of their employers. "If it is a solitary profession, it is also a kind of loving involvement with history," Georgie Anne Geyer confessed in Buying the Night Flight: the Autobiography of a Woman Correspondent. The involvement is the reader's equally, journalism being history on the run. When the correspondent is removed, so is the citizen, who is then left to assess the conduct of a war by official and authorized...