Word: plasma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last war, our greatest lifesaver is bottled plasma and the rapidity with which it is injected. The jeep which can carry up to four litter cases, sometimes with two or three corpsmen hanging on with one hand and holding a plasma bottle high with the other, is one of the most dramatic of war scenes...
Death. The doctor made five trips into the hole to give the trapped man stimulants, and a transfusion of plasma. Warm milk was lowered to him. He sipped at it listlessly. After daylight, his wife knelt at the mouth of the well and dropped religious medals into the excavation; she rose with her face white, her hands fumbling with her rosary. A policeman called, "How are you feeling, Dom?" The well-digger replied quietly, "I am going...
Oncley has been doing important research in the study of protein molecules. In 1939 he supervised the construction of the University's ultracentrifuge to guide work on protein purifacation. During the war he did research for the plasma fractionation program...
Died. Dr. Charles Richard Drew, 45, pioneer in the collection and use of blood plasma, chief surgeon for Washington's Freedman Hospital; in an automobile accident; near Burlington, N.C. For supervising New York's blood donations to bombed Britain and directing the first Red Cross collection unit for the U.S. armed forces, he won the 1943 Spingarn Award "for the highest achievement by an American Negro...
William R. Polk '51, Chairman of the Drive, last night urged everyone to sign up, whether they have given before or not. Whole blood, he said, spoils after three weeks and must be turned into plasma, and frequent donations are necessary to maintain whole blood in local blood banks...