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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1942
Hill-Pfeiffer Process
THE THRESHER
PAGE THREE
Sternum Transfusion
May Completely Revise
Emergency Technique
Members of the Institute and University of Houston pre-
medical societies and local physicians saw demonstrated Friday
night a new emergency technique that makes possible blood
transfusion under wartime con
Thirteen
To Report
On Thirteenth
lied Cross instructors failed to
notice two things when they ordered
the fifth Institute co-ed class to
report today for initial training.
It's Friday the thirteenth, and the
class numbers exactly thirteen.
0
Room Changes Due
Within One Week
ditions in a minimum of three
minutes.
Dr. James M. Hill, director of the
Buchanan Blood Plasma Serum Cen-
ter in Dallas, demonstrated the "ad-
tevas" process for obtaining dried
blood plasma he developed in col-
laboration with D. C. Pfeiffer, Dal-
las mechanical engineer, and re-
vealed that a technique developed at
Jefferson Medical School in Phila-
delphia by investigators using "ad-
it vac" installations may completely
: evise emergency transfusion pro-
cedure.
Sternum Injections
Dr. Hill, speaking in the Chemis-
try Lecture Hall, said that Jeffer-
son researchers are using specially-
built hypodermic needles resistant
to breakage to inject plasma direct-
ly into the marrow of the sternum,
or breast-bone. This, he declared,
minimizes the danger of broken
needles, collapsed veins often pres-
ent in cases of shock, and other dif-
Students who wish to change
their dormitory rooms for the sec-
ond term must advise the Commit-
tee on Executive Management be-
tween today and February 21, ac-
cording to an announcement posted
on all dormitory bulletin boards.
Changes after that time will be
made only in "emergencies," the an-
Rhett Again
the government may require 2,000,-
000 transfusion units for war.
The product is under emergency
production for the government by a
commercial laboratory (Abbot t,
Inc.). Both the United States and
her allies have shown a keen inter-
est in the "adtevac" process itself,
its developer asserted.
Dr. Hill showed motion pictures j nouncement states
of an aide preparing the dried plas-
ma for use in an elapsed time of 50
seconds, asserting that emergency
transfusions in c a s e s of extreme
shock bad been made by the method
in under four minutes.
Critical Need
He emphasized the critical need
of building up immediately huge
supplies of dried plasma for mili-
tary use. Describing shock, a condi-
tion following severe wounds or ac-
cidents and characterized by the
disturbance of required balance in
the blood system as '"the great
killer," he said that he was con-
Oh the. 9*aULde GcuttfuU
The big story during this week in
February, 1917, was the one about
the recovery of Sammy I from un-
der the noses of the A. and M. stu-
dent bory. The hand-made bird had
been stolen after the Rice-A. & M.
basketball game which was won by
the Cadets. There was no guard left
around the owl, and while everyone
was at the d a n c e following the
game, s o m e cadets slipped away
with it. Sammy's disappearance was
denied in the newspapers and a new
one was made and shown in an ef-
fort to keep the Farmers from ex- i
pecting an attempt to recapture it. j
Detective Hired
Thirteen men organized them-:
selves to get Sammy back, and they |
sent a detective to College Station!
dark night, they went to the A. and
M. campus, unaware that the detec-
tive had been unable to discover the
owl's whereabouts. The boys decided
to take things into their own hands,
and after fooling a night watchman
into thinking they were freshmen
ordered to stay out late, they began
searching dorm rooms. They were
forced to abandon the search when
daylight came, but it was learned
later that they were only two rooms
from Sammy's hiding place.
New Force
A new organization of seventeen
men was formed and this one sent
.mother detective, who soon dis-
covered that Sammy was being kept
in the Armory. The men set out in
to find his hiding place. Then, one
j three cars and laid their plans care-
•ulties confronting the physician j vinced that shock victims in war-
working in battle-stations or on the
battlefield itself to give life-saving
S lood when seconds Are precious.
He emphasized the amount of
time saved in making transfusions
instantaneously under such condi-
tions as compared with ordinary
Mood transfusion, where blood is
administered through an opened
vein after necessary delays for typ-
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fare or private life must be admin-
istered p 1 a s m a i n m a x i m u m
amounts as soon as possible. "You
can't temporize with shock." he de-
clared. "our rule when its use is in-
dicated in critical emergencies is to
give plasma every ten minutes until
the patient improves or dies
Still in his thirties, the tall young. vivie
researcher sketched briefly the de-1 tions havi
tails of the difficulties encountered j heroically
Two epic movies will be in the
downtown cinena centers this week
with the return of "Gone With the
Wind" and the hold-over of "How
Green Was My Valley." The Majes-
tic will present the film version of
the famous play "The Man Who
Came to Dinner."
Third Revival
fully. They got Sammy and rushed
back to the cars, heading for Hous-
ton at top speed.
Unfortunately, two of the cars
broke down, so the third had four-
teen men piled in plus the 200-pound
owl. This car ran. out of gas near
Navasota, so the boys were forced
to take to the woods to elude the
whole cadets corps which was after
them. The group split up, and those
On the w h o 1 e, "Gone With the c'ai r>' Sammy found themselves sur-
.... . ,, ri ,, hounded; They quick lv removed
Wind remains among the Hollv-i ,. , , ,,
] Sammy S skin, burned the stu.tt.mgy:
wood immortals. i cut the skin into four parts, and
Masterful Direction tied the pieces around their bodies.
Everyone is urged to enjoy the j They were able to escape their pur-
richness of "How Green Was %Uuers, and were picked up by two
it t, l u , hunters who took them to Navasota
valley. Its flaws are much harder , , , ,
and helped them get back to Hous-
to find, for it does not cover so . -,.i ,i 1 • t>-, 1
ton with the skin. Rice students,
much scope as "Gone With the j extremely well pleased with the re-
wind." It presents some of the most turn of the skin, were taking up a
I we
This will be the fourth local show
ing of "Gone With the Wind," but delightful, most human and moving, collection repay those who had paid
can welcome it back, for it is a ' characters that have ever been seen *"1 ('a,^nS' '"aM-
reminder that other genera- ' on the screen. .John Ford had di- Students *n Dpera
The men's literary
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died to preserve a great:
societies were
ing donor anil patient.
Immediate Transfusion ! by himself and Pfeiffer in develop-j nation. Mr. Selznick's screen drama-j
Plasma, the straw-colored medium big the process which has been used 1 tization of Margaret Mitchell's;
,.f blood, is free from the corpuscles : to dry 2,000,000 cubic centimers of j lengthy novel is satisfactory and
that necessitate blood-typing before j blood at the Dallas center. 'about as good as can be expected.
•rdinary transfusions. Frozen and j Borrowed Autoclave i It has many fine sequences, as the
dried by the Hill-Pfeiffer process,) Beginning with a borrowed auto- j charity ball, and the panorama of
which yields approximately 15 clave and tiny motors loaned by the the Confederate wounded lying in
•j. rams per pint of liquid blood, it! sheriff's department after being! the Atlanta railroad yards. Of j
can be carried in small, sealed bot-! taken from confiscated slot ma- j course, there are some parts which;
after; are ill-chosen and unnecessary, but literary eccentric marooned in a
h elements must be overlooked. Middle Western household. He defi-
1 i nitely does not fit into his surround-
| ings, and succeeds in making every-
one around him miserable. It is said
suffered, sacrificed, and ■ *cted it in a manner that gives the „ « ■
highly dramatic and eventful story loking forward to the Peace Oration
a warm quality which goes straight contest which was to begin Febru-
to the heart. ary 20. The teams were being chusct.
The comedy lead of "The Man wjth great care, and each society
Who Came to Dinner" is played by• was confident of victory. Discus-
Monty Woolley, and he has Bette
Davis, Ann Sheridan, Jimmy Du-
rante, Billie Burke, and Laura Hope
Crews to help him brighten up the
show. The story is a farce about a
t 'es and mixed with antiseptic, chines, they tackled problem
i>yrogen-free water for immediate] problem before developing a method j sue
t ransfusion. j based upon the use of physical ad- j
Dr. Hill said that the "bottle- j sorbents and temperature and vac-J the high-speed reduction he declared
neck" in plasma production is in ob- uum control. The process was named | necessary to national welfare,
taming blood, indicating that civil-1 "adtevac" from a combination of |)r. Martin Speaks
i;itis might be asked in the near fu-j these three principles. j [>,. Charles L. Martin, professor
tare to make donations to assure! Now utilizing the facilities of! of clinical radialogy at Baylor Med-
themselves and the army of suffi- their new $30,000 center endowed byj ical College and father of senior
cent dried plasma. He refused to j William Buchanan. Hei.ll and Pfeif- j pre-med Jimmy Martin, accom-
comment at length upon interest j lol. are using the fifth adaptation of j panied Dr. Hill here and spoke upon
miiltary authorities have taken in j the first 1939 "adtevac" apparatus,
ins work, but revealed that he and j aU(j a nevv niodel is under eonstruc-
nis associates, operating the >nly j tion. Under present conditions, they
plasma-drying unit of its kind in. can p,.ocoss a maximum of 42 quarts
Texas, have already estimated that
that Mr. Woolley makes the film
much funnier than the play given in
Houston, and if that is true, the pic-
ture should be extremely humorous.
sions were being held about the pos-
sibility and means of turning ovet
the management of the Thresher to
the student body, and any sugges-
tions on the matter were greatly
appreciated.
Rice men took part, in the presen-
tation of "Aida" given in Houston
during the week, taking, the parts of
soldiers, courtiers, and Egyptian
slaves. One soldier was so conscien-
tious that when the villain hesitated
while he was chasing him. he gave
the villain a poke with bis spear.
S H O E S
Main at Walker
Rice Representatives
VIRGINIA STEVENS
DORENDA HALE
of blood a day into dried plasma. In
one record afternoon, 122 volunteer
donors were "bled" at the center.
Any physician can send the Buch-
anan Center a pint of blood and re-
ceive in return 15 grams of plasma
that can be kept in storage indefi-
nitely or carried for immediate use
in emergencies. The only charge is
for the actual cost of processing---
$5 per pint.
Obvious Advantages
Adverse reaction to dried plasma
transfusions at the center, accord-
ing to Dr. Hill, has been less than
one per cent for 2,000,000 cubic cen-
timeters. Blood used for dry plasma
is poured collectively in separators
for collecting corpuscle-free plasma
without segregating it into the four
types, since low temperature elimi-
nates the danger of hemolysis, the
final stage of lumping or agglutina-
tion of the corpuscles which belong
to different blood types. Obvious
advantages of the "adtevac" meth-
od, according to Dr. Hill, include the
reduction of moisture content below
one per cent and its adaptability to
the use of radiant' energy in medi-
cine. Illustrating his lecture with
slides tracing the development of
x-rays and radium, Dr. Martin em-
phasized the increasing need for ba-
sic sciences allied to biology in med-
icine.
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