In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took on the US Army Barber Charles
In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took on the US Army Barber Charles The incredible true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck…
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In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took on the US Army Barber Charles
The incredible true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joined forces to create a once-in-a-generation lifesaving product--and were persecuted for it by the U.S. This tragedy reinforced the need for a revolutionary treatment that could transform trauma medicine. Army.At the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, dramatized by the popular film Black Hawk Down, the majority of soldiers who died bled to death before they could even reach an operating table.
The Marines and the Navy adopted the resulting product, QuikClot, immediately. So, when Frank Hursey and Bart Gullong--who had no medical or military experience--discovered that a cheap, crushed rock called zeolite had blood-clotting properties, they brought it to the military's attention. The Army, however, resisted.
It had two products of its own being developed to prevent excessive