SYNTHETIC BLOOD
SUBSTITUTE FOR HUMAN TRANSFUSION NEW YORK, August 30.. Synthetic blood, with which it is hoped to prolong life, is being perfected in England and America. Already a cat which had lost all its blood has been enabled to live for thirty-six hours after injections of “ synthetic blood ” have been made. This amazing result has been accomplished by Dr W. R. Amberson, head of the Department of Physiology in the State College of Medicine, at Memphis. T6IIQ6SSC6* t Dr, A. G. Mulder, who is associated with this attempt to find a substitute for human blood transfusions, is in London engaged on esperifnental work along the same lines. It is explained that an extract of ox blood is mixed with a solution containing salts which are known to bo part of human blood. . As simian blood is the nearest approach to human blood, monkeys are to be experimented upon next..
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Evening Star, Issue 21819, 7 September 1934, Page 7
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150SYNTHETIC BLOOD Evening Star, Issue 21819, 7 September 1934, Page 7
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