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led him to investigate a wide variety of topics with an analytical and practical focus, and to publish his results. In Spanish he published a dozen studies about different aspects of the storage of blood, and in 1937 he published in English in the The Lancet the method he had developed in Barcelona. This interest never diminished throughout his life. Indeed, his last study was published in the ...

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