Word: tetsuro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comes what may eventually be a simpler and cheaper solution. In the British medical journal Lancet, Pediatrician Tetsuro Fujiwara reports successfully using a strange concoction to coat the lungs of 15 newborns with HMD who were not responding to standard therapy. The ingredients: purified surfactant taken from cow lungs and organic compounds. Others have tried a similar approach, using totally synthetic surfactants. But such solutions seemed not to work because they lacked some essence of the natural substance. Moreover, no one had yet devised a way to apply a surfactant directly to a baby's lungs...