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Word: whitish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Annals of Surgery, a group of Detroit scientists described their blood substitute, which is cheap, plentiful, harmless-and comes from the kitchen. The substance: pectin-a whitish, grainy carbohydrate, made from grapefruit, lemons or other fruit. Housewives use pectin to put jell into jellies; surgeons sometimes use it externally as a wound healer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Jelly Blood | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

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