?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(MEDICINE.) DREW, CHARLES RICHARD. The Role of Soviet Investigators in the Development of the Blood Bank. 358-369 pages [in] Volume 1, Number 1 of the American Review of Soviet Medicine. Portraits, illustrations and charts. 588 pages. Original large, crown 8vo, original red cloth. New York, 1943
volume one, number one of a very scarce wartime publication, showing the progress Soviet doctors were having in the development of blood plasma, which eventually saved countless lives. Charles Richard Drew (1904-1950) is credited in large part for the development of blood plasma and the 'banking' of blood. In 1940, before the U.S. entered the war, Drew created a central blood bank and helped develop the program known as 'Blood for Britain,' which saved countless lives at Dunkirk. An African American, he resigned from a position in the American Red Cross because they practiced racial segregation for blood donations. He died in an auto accident in 1950.
