Episode 3.1: History of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treatment and Building the BFM Backbone
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The History of the Nitrogen Muffin
Two American pathologists, Edward and Helen Kroompar who analyzed the effects on the survivors. They found that their bone marrow was completely depleted. And they wrote a small report. People don't talk about this paper that they published in I think it was like 1919. Later in the 1940s there was what was known as the Barrie incident where German planes bombed a group of American ships in a harbor outside of Barrie, Italy. This mustard gas killed nearly a thousand people. Those that didn't die from the initial terrible burns succumbed later to essentially what was bone marrow failure.
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