Word: methemoglobin
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...Professor Amberson mixes with Ringer's solution, common table and other salts in distilled water resembling the constitution of blood serum. Cats perfused completely with Dr. Amberson's blood mixture have lived as long as 36 hours. Then they died because the cell-free hemoglobin changed to methemoglobin which cannot carry life-giving oxygen to suffocating body cells. One of Professor Amberson's problems, before such artificial blood can be widely used, is to find a way to retard the formation of methemoglobin...
...Notes on the change of Hemoglobin to Methemoglobin" will be the subject of a lecture at the Medical School by Dr. R. M. Ferry '12 this afternoon. Dr. Ferry is a Research Fellow in Bio-Chemistry and has been conducting research experiments for some time. He is now giving some of the results he secured. His lecture will be in the Bowditch Library in Building C of the Medical School at 4 o'clock this afternoon...
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