Word: hemoglobins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, a month early, and still unconscious, Rhoda Wenger gave birth to a 4 lb., 2¼ oz. girl. As the premature baby grew, Rhoda Wenger waned: despite five transfusions of hemoglobin, her weight was down to 85 pounds. Said the despairing father, still hospitalized in Washington: "I don't know how long she can keep fighting...
...cell transfusions to 48 anemic patients. All but four showed definite improvement. Only two had bad reactions (they became feverish). One patient, apparently dying of pernicious anemia, was given five red-cell transfusions; his red-cell blood count improved from 650,000 to 3,130,000, his hemoglobin from 2 to 11 gm. per 100 c.c., in a month he was able to go home...
...started up and down some awfully steep hills, some 7,000 feet high. I had had malaria every couple of weeks since December and the day we reached the Assam border I couldn't have walked another step. When we reached civilization I was down to 50% hemoglobin, had lost 35 pounds and my legs were swollen to the knees...
...painless. A nurse takes temperature, pulse, blood pressure, a small sample of the blood. She asks whether the donor has a cold, or has ever had tuberculosis or malaria, fainting spells or fits. If the answer is no, if the donor looks healthy and the blood sample contains enough hemoglobin (80%), a doctor anesthetizes the inner arm below the elbow and the collecting needle slides painlessly into a vein...
Green and red are the colors of life: green for the chlorophyll in plants, red for the hemoglobin in blood cells of man and animal. That red-blooded human beings must eat green leaves, every housewife knows. Several years ago, Professor Benjamin Gruskin of Philadelphia's Temple University followed up this housewifely line. He wanted to see if chlorophyll could fortify body cells which had been invaded by bacteria. He persuaded 18 of his colleagues to use a chlorophyll preparation (usually made from nettles) in their daily practice, and note what happened...