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(Mary Van Rensselaer Buell was a member of the American Society of Biological Chemists and carried out extensive research on nutrition and physiological chemistry at University of Iowa, Johns Hopkins University, Washington University, and the University of Chicago.  "She worked on the chemistry of nucleic acids and nucleotides, the relation of hormones to the metabolism of carbohydrates, and the development of ultramicroscopic procedures for the analysis of enzyme activity.")

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Studies of Blood Regeneration
This is Buell's PhD thesis for the University of Wisconsin circa 1919. In this work she attempts to illustrate, through multiple experiments on different animals, the alkaline reserve that is present after immediate hemorrhaging. Or to put it in simple terms it is the presence of ions or substances in fluid such as blood that would lower Ph levels and neutralize acid. In this work her findings are that depending on the diet given to the animal (in her conclusions she experimented on pigs) the creatine output for both animals was increased, this was on a diet of corn and water. On a diet of strictly starch and water the animals reacted differently in that the second bleed caused increased nitrogen, phosphates, and creatine. in these experiments regarding multiple bleeds and her study on alkaline reserves she found that the drops were slight and of short duration.

Detergent Action of Soap
Buell spends most of the time in this work trying to find out the effectiveness of different soaps. She tested many factors including the effect of temperature, concentration, and the effect that age has on a soap detergent. During her experiments she found a number of things. Regarding temperature she found that oleate soaps wash better in heated water versus colder water, but it is remarkably effective regardless of temperature. This is in stark contrast to stearate and palmitate soaps which are less versatile and are better in the cooler water. Regarding the age of a soap she found that age has little to no factor in effectiveness. In other words, soapy water is essentially the same as soap from a bottle. In this thesis many conclusions were made such as the surface tensions of different solutions, molecular weight, and the minimum amount of soap to emulsify in a substance. She also concluded that age and temperature has essentially no effect on the effectiveness of the soap itself.