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...have learned so much about nutrition, disease and surgery that, given similar battle conditions, some doctors estimate, a soldier now runs only half as much risk of death from disease and wounds as in World War I. One of the great advances has been in the field of blood plasma. Plasma has been split into several useful components: albumins, which proved even better than whole plasma in treating shock; blood-clotting factors (prothrombin and fibrinogen), which look very promising in the treatment of hemorrhage and burns; antibodies, which have been tried as injections against virus diseases, have already worked well...
...chemistry the Russians have pioneered in the preparation and use of blood plasma, in synthetic rubber, photochemistry, explosives, helium, winter lubricants for tanks and planes. Dr. Wendell M. Stanley, famed virus investigator of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, told of a new Russian antiserum that has given the best results yet in preventing influenza. Soviet scientists have found ways to extract iodine cheaply from the foul waters of oilfields, sugar from watermelons, vitamin C from pine-tree needles for hungry Leningrad. Important contributions have been made to molecular physics, optics, electronics...
...Wainwright, Devon's husband, Devonshire House's chief concocter of the high-priced goos that pay for the Wainwrights' East River house. Tim is an Iowa farm boy not only in build but at heart. He has a mission: to do plasma research against the day when the U.S. will enter World...
...Lithuanians and Poles -ravished the beautiful city. The proud conquerors became dust; Kiev, with its seven rolling hills, its glistening church domes, its banks towering above the Dnieper, survived. It sprawled on the border between the rich, black-soiled south and the forested north, and their wealth was the plasma which always revived...
...Russian surgeons use more whole blood than plasma for transfusions. They can do this because the blood-giving population is near the front. The blood is preserved by a special underground storage method, is thrown away if unused within three weeks...