Medicine: Skin & Bone

Two new blood-plasma extracts, one like skin, the other like bone, were announced a fortnight ago by the Harvard Medical School's Department of Physical Chemistry. The laboratory work was done under Dr. Edwin Joseph Cohn, who perfected the extraction of "measles globulin" and other human-blood components for the Army & Navy (TIME, June 5). The new extracts, both plastics:

ΒΆ A thin, elastic film which can be used as a surface dressing for burns. It can be impregnated with sulfa drugs or penicillin, will stay pliant and moist while the wound is still raw, so that removing it is not painful....

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