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Stalin ended the letter in a similar vein...
...basic technique was worked out at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research by a team including famed Microbiologist René J. Dubos and Dr. Gardner Middlebrook. Between 5 and 7 cc of blood (less than two teaspoons) are drawn from an arm vein. The serum (amber fluid) is separated from the cells and added to a specially treated preparation containing the red cells of sheep's blood. The mixture is kept at blood heat for two hours and then left at room temperature overnight...
...stuck by his claims through all the minute cross-examination of yesterday and today, reversing himself on only one point. Ford admitted this morning that if the hypodermic neodie had entered Mrs. Borroto's vein, he "didn't believe the air would stop at the thrombus"--the blood clot that dammed the upper part of the vein...
Prosecutor Phinney spent much of the morning belittling Ford's medical experience and hinting that he had withheld some of Mrs. Borroto's remains from State experts. In answer to this last attack, the defense was forced to produce a three-foot vein from her exhumed body and show it to the jury during lunch recess...
Miller testified that it is possible to pierce a collapsed vein with a hypodermic needle, and that it is often done. He also said that the blood elots had formed after Mrs. Borroto's death, so that the vein was never blocked...