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...Dicumarol in pure form and then to synthesize it. They found that in the body it makes salicylic acid. Another anticoagulant, heparin, was already on the market. It is also used to keep donors' blood fluid until it can be processed. But it is an expensive extract of ox lung and liver, must be given by injection, and is hard to control. Therefore surgeons (who worry lest a fatal clot undo their work) took up Dicumarol...
...over again. So after my work I came home, came in the door and they congratulated me and said, 'You've got twins.' I almost collapsed. Well, those twins were born and cost a lot of money. They were anemic and I had to buy liver extract No. 65 which would cost me $365 a bottle. They had to have one bottle a week between the two. In other words, every week I had to buy a bottle of this medicine...
...Best animal for serum experiments is the rabbit. Serum for the purpose is made by inoculating rams with rabbit spleen and marrow cells, making an extract from their blood...
...like to call themselves democrats, but so far they have merely laughed up their sleeves at the strutting Colonels, made no attempt to kick them out. One reason is that Argentines are so well off that nothing their Government does seems important. Their wheat, meat, linseed, wool, hides, tannic extract, and dairy products are snapped up by the United Nations at fancy prices. The figures are secret, but most of the food goes to armies in Europe and civilians in Great Britain...
...usually made by injecting horses with cells from the spleens and bone marrow (bloodmaking tissues) of human corpses, preferably young, healthy people who died by accident. The final product is an extract of the horses' blood...