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LIFE IN YOUR VEINS
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some sort of a chemical liberated that penetrates the capillaries and paralyses them, letting the plasma escape. This lowers the blood pressure, pointing the way to asphyxiation.
In the United States, the Surgeon General of the Army appointed a commission headed by Walter B. Cannon of Harvard University to study shock, determine its causes and find a cure.
Piecing together the findings of his commission with the research re ports from other nations, Dr. Cannon advanced the idea that shock could be treated successfully by transfusion of plasma. The most important aspect of his findings, however, was that treatment of shock does not require whole blood — that the red corpuscles were not needed. This eliminated the necessity for matching blood types because the plasma from anybody's body can be given to anybody else.
This posed another storage problem because at that time no method was known that would permit plasma to be stored in large quantities.
The storing of plasma — the drying and preservation of the vital blood fluid in a form that was stable, easily transported and readily liquefied by the addition of distilled water — is an American process so recent that not one in a thousand can name the scientists who brought the discovery into being shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. They are: Doctors W. J. Elser, John Reickel, E. W. Flosdorf and Stuart Mudd.
Because of the prompt administra
tion of stored blood plasma for light as well as severe wounds, American battle casualties today number fewer by half the fatalities for similar wounds in World War I. More than twice the number of World War II wounded will recover — will live — will come home.
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