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Foremost among these discoveries are been the isolation of quinine by Woodward and Doering, the separation of blood plasma into its various chemical components by Dr. Cohn, the invention of an apparatus for transferring whole blood within the battle lines by Majors Emerson and Ebert, the gathering of much evidence that cancer is caused by glandular disturbances by Drs. Lieberstein, Hill and Feiser, and a new treatment for goiter by Dr. Astwood...
...peculiar pride in the fact that its strike was "legal." Youthful (26) Chester Joseph Adamczyck put up posters showing that his 1,900 strikers at Parke, Davis & Co.'s two Detroit plants had complied with the Smith-Connally Act.* But their action halted production of penicillin and blood plasma...
...abstruse articles on the devious ways of blood. From the beginning, the laboratory's work has been too deep for most laymen, as near pure science as work on flesh & blood can be. In 1940 the National Research Council picked Dr. Cohn to find out whether beef plasma could substitute for human plasma in wartime transfusions. So far the answer is no, but in turning beef blood inside out, techniques were developed which led to the new ways of mining human blood for its useful components...
...stable preparation of serum albumin (TIME, Jan. 31), which is especially useful in shock. It is five times as powerful as plasma in drawing blood fluid back from the tissues into the blood stream. (Leakage of blood fluid into the tissues, with consequent reduction of blood volume and lowered blood pressure, are characteristics of shock...
Pursers are taught how to bandage, administer laxatives, penicillin, sulfa drugs, morphine, plasma. They learn to make chest X rays and Wassermann tests, to immunize against typhus, tetanus, typhoid, smallpox. They get a smattering of psychology, more than a smattering of ship sanitation...