Drew

Drew definition - medical

Drew (dro͞o), Charles Richard 1904-1950.

American physician who developed in 1940 a method of efficiently preserving blood plasma for transfusion. He organized and directed blood-plasma programs in the United States and Great Britain, becoming head of the first American Red Cross Blood Bank in 1941.

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