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- <title>
- Sep. 09, 1991: Died:Florence Seibert
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Sep. 09, 1991 Power Vacuum
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 64
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- <p> DIED. Florence Seibert, 93, biochemist who developed a process
- that made intravenous transfusions safe and refined an accurate
- skin test for tuberculosis; in St. Petersburg. In the 1920s, while
- teaching and performing research at the University of Chicago,
- Seibert devised a method for I.V. transfusions that did not cause
- sudden high fevers. After isolating the active substance in
- tuberculin, she improved the first accurate skin test for
- tuberculosis.
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- </body></article>
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