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Professor Tiselius has not tried dextran on war casualties. (When plasma is available, it is, of course, the best thing to use.) He thinks dextran will eventually have wide use in civilian first-aid kits...
...newest substitute for blood plasma is made from beets. Dextran, reported last week by Professor Arne Tiselius of Sweden's Institute of Physical Chemistry, is a white, jellylike substance which results when the bacteria Leuconostoc mesenteroides lives in beet sugar (it has long been a plague of sugar factories because it clogs up the pipes...