Word: spleenless
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...have had their spleens removed seems to coagulate faster than the blood of normal individuals. Two young Cuban physicians who had arrested hemorrhages with transfusions from splenectomized individuals suggested that Drs. Castillo and Núñez do the same. They did so, 22 times, taking blood from one spleenless man, two spleenless women. Gradually, for reasons unknown to medicine, the bleeding diminished, finally ceased. Fortnight ago his doctors told the Count that their measures had not cured him permanently but assured him that he was well enough to travel. With his right foot in an enormous boot...
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