Word: rh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Varsity starting lineup; Batch-elder, g; Scully, lf; Burrowes, fr; Mavor (capt.), rh; Ogden, ch; Louria, lh; Heisler, ro; Potter, ri; Estin, cf; Chun, li; Dawson, lo. Substitutes; Spivak, Blanco, and Aguirre...
...Flynn (200) le Elliott (205) Honston (200) lt Kirkland (250) Drennan (190) lg Thomas (190) Glynn (205) e Frizzell (212) Feinberg (188) rg Baumann (202) Pierce (215) rt Barbour (210) Hill (180) re Weir (178) O'Donnell (160) qb McCary (172) Kenary (180) lh Bailey (198) Gannon (180) rh Pennel (177) Moravee (200) fb G. Jones...
...baby unconcernedly sucked on its bottle as a flush began to mount in its cheeks. Its blood vessels were slowly flushed clear of Rh blood (though a little remained, mixed with the donor's). Dr. Wiener let the flow continue until the concentration at the outgoing end was 90% new blood; in effect he drained and refilled the baby twice. (A newborn infant has about half a pint of blood.) After two and a half hours he handed back to the mother a healthy, rosy child...
...similar dramatic operation, Dr. Wiener last week transfused another Rh baby (see cut). Complete transfusion is not new (Wiener himself, and others, had done it before), but the technique has been so perfected in recent months that doctors now consider it a tested cure for erythroblastosis...
...Rh factor (so named because it was first discovered in rhesus monkeys) is a mysterious, hereditary component of red blood cells. Rh positive and Rh negative cells are sometimes incompatible; if Rh cells have been sensitized to the Rh factor, mixing them results in antibodies which either break down the Rh positive cells (causing anemia and jaundice) or produce clots (blocking circulation...