Word: judin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the most advanced technique for blood transfusion was to be found in Moscow. There, the instant someone commits suicide, dies of hears failure, or is killed by accident, an ambulance rushes his corpse to Sklifassovsky Institute for Urgent Aid where one of Surgeon Sergius Judin's aides quickly straps the body to a see-saw table, tilts it head down, drains the blood through a tap in the jugular vein. A small quantity of blood is set aside for laboratory study while the rest, treated with potassium citrate, goes into cold storage. Surgeon Judin, who perfected...
...Judin method cheapens blood transfusions.* More important for vast, under-doctored U.S.S.R., storage blood can be shipped to isolated communities. And in the next war it can be kept at field hospitals...
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