Show Blood Plasma Aids Burns PHILADELPHIA Oct 2 OP P-A P A Anew new method of treating burns which Dr Walter E. E Lee of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania hospital declared would be of great value in wartime was described to the four day annual annual an an- nual convention of the Pennsylvania Pennsylva Pennsylva- nia Medical society I The treatment announced by Drs Lee J. J Russell Elkin Elkinton ton and William A. A Wolff adapts the use use- of blood plasma which which can be separated separated sep sep- from the liquid part of the blood and if necessary carried onto battlefields t. t Dr Lee Tuesday explained that the plasma is injected into the veins where It acts as a kind of suction pump drawing back into the vessels blood has spread out into surrounding tissues It is used in conjunction with chemicals chemicals chemi chemi- cals applied directly to the burned areas |