Word: periston
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Periston," a German-concocted synthetic chemical, was mixed with water and used by the Nazis as a blood plasma substitute. Periston resembles gelatin and gum acacia (sometimes used for the same purpose) but is safer than either - so say the Germans, who gave more than 200,000 treatments "with practically no reactions...
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