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Dates: during 1934-1934
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Last week Professor William Ruthzauff Amberson of the University of Tennessee believed that he had progressed one important step beyond Moscow's technique because he had kept cats alive on nothing but ox blood. His method is to break down the bovine hemoglobin, the substance in red blood cells which carries oxygen throughout the body. This cell-free hemoglobin Professor Amberson mixes with Ringer's solution, common table and other salts in distilled water resembling the constitution of blood serum. Cats perfused completely with Dr. Amberson's blood mixture have lived as long as 36 hours. Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Artificial Blood? | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

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