Word: stepner
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...Meantime, in Ohio, Drs. Stepner and Taplits announced that their hemophilia research (TIME, Sept. 5) was at a standstill because of a shortage of 1) funds, 2) hemophiliacs...
Latest and most unusual treatment for the bleeding is the application of fresh human milk to stubborn wounds. Two young Ohio physicians, Dr. Lester Stepner of Cincinnati and Dr. Sol Taplits of New Richmond, applied the milk to two hemophiliacs, stopped severe cases of bleeding in a short time with only a few ounces of milk. "More research work is needed to isolate and identify the [bloodclotting] principle in human milk," said plump Dr. Stepner last week. "I think it is an autacoid [hormone]. . . . Dr. Taplits thinks it is an enzyme...