Word: normans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John C. Norman '50, associate in Surgery, is the head of a project at Boston City Hospital that for the first time has succeeded in curing a dog of hemophilia...
...Norman and his associates--among whom is Dr. Victor C. Covelli, Research Fellow in Surgery--earlier discovered the crucial role of the spleen in producing Factor VIII, a substance whose presence in the body prevents hemophilia...
...What Norman found is that Factor VIII is produced by the spleen. In the past the treatment for hemophilia has been the injection of Factor VIII into the hemophiliac. Te new method is to replace the defective spleen of the hemophiliac with a healthy...
...Norman's research has so far been limited to beagles which have been specially bred to produce a strain composed largely of hemophiliac dogs. (The canine disease does not differ significantly from the human form...
Wilfred J. Funk and Norman Lewis...