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Show Blood Plasma Saving Lives Modern warfare is bloody business, busi-ness, with dead and wounded men marking the progress of battle. It ought to be comforting, however, how-ever, to Americans that, thanks to the courage and skill of our doctors, the finest techniques of surgery and medicine are available avail-able to wounded men right up to the battle line. Reports from Italy indicate that the doctors and their helpers have done a splendid job. Aproxi-mately, Aproxi-mately, half of all the men wounded are restored to frontline front-line condition and the others arc receiving the best of care. It is impossible to go into much detail as to the practice involved m surgery on the chest, brain and abdomen, but it should be pleasing pleas-ing to blood donors to know that the effectiveness of blood plasma enables surgeons to save many more of the seriously wounded than they did in the last war. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rasmusscn are spending a couple of weeks vacation at Ontario, California visiting with their daughter, Mrs. Frank G. Stark and family. |