MEDICINE’S GOLDEN DECADE ....
Blood Plasma Lesson Comes
From Vegetables
By SCHUYLER ALLMAN—<^P) Features Writer
PRECIOUS PLASMA: Many live who once would die.
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THIRD OF A SERIES
In a St. Louis laboratory, a sci
entist surrounded by parapherna
lia was methodically drying vege
tables.
The year was 1909. The scien
tist was Dr. L. F. Shackell of the
Washington University School of
Medicine. The paraphernalia was
a freezing unit and a vacuum.
Remember this scientist with
his new method of preserving
vegetables while we skip a few
years to World War I.
American surgeons, brandishing
flagons of human blood in a solu
tion of sodium citrate, descended
on the battlefields of France sav
ing thousands of lives with a new
transfusion technique.
The approved but cumbersome
and difficult method was transfu
sion direct from donor to patient,
t because no one knew how to store
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blood without clotting. Sodium
citrate did it.
Medical experimenters found in
1938 that blood plasma, the part
remaining after red cells are re
moved, could be used instead of
whole blood in some transfusions.
The reason plasma was used
was that some saving soul, know
ing that his citrated blood in the
beakers was about to spoil, drew
off the plasma and tried it out.
Experiment showed it could be
given to anyone regardless of
blood type—patients can receive
whole blood only from donors
with a suitable type—and it would
keep much longer than citrated
blood.
When World War II broke, re
search in all countries was racing
after an easy way to get plasma
to battlefields, for it could be pre
served only at regulated tempera
tares and took up a lot of pre
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ASSIST REV. CARLSON
Rev. and Mrs. Roald Amundsen
and Rev. and Mrs. Edward G.
Nelson, Covenant missionaries, ar
rived by P.A.A. Friday evening.
During the past three years,
Rev. and Mrs. Amundsen have
served a Mission Covenant church
in Rockford, Illinois. They have
come to Nome to serve as Cove
nant Missionaries, together with
the Paul Carlsons. Their coming
will enable Missionary Pilot Paul
Carlson to give more time to vis
iting the outlying villages where
missionary work has been estab
lished.
Rev. Nelson is a Covenant pas
tor and for the past two years has
been studying the Chinese lang
uage and serving one of our
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Nelson has spent a term of five
and a half years as missionary in
China. They are at present en
route to White Mountain to re
place Rev. and Mrs. Lindgren,
who have been transferred to the
Unalakleet station.
cious shipping space.
The laboratories remembered
Dr. Shackell and his dried vege
tables. They also remembered he
had dried some blood serum.
So they borrowed his dehydrat
ing methods, took liquid plasma,
froze it, put it in a high vacuum
and drew off the moisture.
The dried product took less
shipping space, needed no regu
lated temperature, and when
mixed with sterile water is ready
to use, on the battlefield if neces
sary.
Invaluable in treating wounds,
plasma also has been mixed with
sulfanilimide to cure severe burns
rapidly.
Implications of widespread use
of plasma are enormous. Red
blood cells left after plasma is ex
tracted, for example, have pro
duced promising results in treat
| ing anemia.
j Medicine has indeed traveled
| far since the seventeenth century,
when court physicians still were
solemnly prescribing bleeding in
treatment of battlefield wounds.
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