Word: glue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patch in place added to the bleeding and decreased the chances of a take-oozing blood may keep a graft from sticking. A masked woman by the table, Belgian-born Dr. Machteld E. Sano, was thinking fast as she watched the needle. And she got an idea: why not "glue" a graft in place with such animal-chemical substances as are used in tissue culture (TIME, June 13, 1938), such stuff as keeps bits of chicken heart and other organs alive outside the body...
...Sano went back to her tissue-culture laboratory at Temple University's School of Medicine and set to work on rats. To make her glue, she took some heart's blood from the rat to be grafted, mixed it 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...
...their necks, the areas that move the most. She 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...
...dared to stand by their radios could hear the voice of an observer circling in a plane somewhere on high giving commands to the methodical British pilots: "There's absolutely nothing here to stop you chaps. The searchlights look pretty thick but they haven't got glue. . . . There's a bit of flak among the searchlights, but none is as bad as it looks. Now, boys, for a nice run in. . . ." Some 1,800 tons of explosives fell on flaming Berlin...
...referring here to the countless wires for flower decorations, the millions of long pins necessary to keep the hats in place, the huge tonnage of glue for fixings, the untold quantity of rubber and elastic bands sometimes used instead of pins, the miles of lace going into veils...