The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-11
TRANSMISSION OF BLOOD.

During the past few months there
have been eight experiments made. in
and about Chicago; in the TRANSMISSION
of blood from the lamb into the veins
of the human subject. These have been
instituted mainly in cases of cousump-
ton, but one or two where there had
been serious loss of blood by hemor-
rhage. The operations have been per-
formed by Drs. Pregler, F. G. Hotz
and t. Wilde, all German physicians.
and are the first made in this country
though the remedy is not new. It has
been resorted to at various periods in
Europe during century or two. The
process is described as follows by q
writer in the inter- Ocean, who was
present at one of the operations ga
ham-shaped board is obtained, the sur
face of which is SO constructed as to re-
ceive, plate-like, the limbs and body of
the lamb. To prevent motion, and thus
interfere with the quiet and successful
outflow of blood, as well as to make the
animals position easy and the pulse
natural, the lamb is bound to the wood
en- charger with broad strap that
circles it about at the feet, the hips, the
shoulder and above the shoulder. The
shaggy wool around the neck is sheared
and the way cleared to the main artery,
which is barred to the surgeons lance
The lamb is selected for several reasons,
chiefly among which are that the tenn
perature of its blood is generally very
nearly that of mans, the blood itself
is also similar in its globules, and the
animal is timid and inoffensiye. The
doctors knife seeks and finds the blood
canal in the lambs neck, and with nicely
of touch the minutest perforation is
made, in which is inserted Immediately
a canule or tube. The opening is fast
ened by means of silk thread to prevent
the flow of blood, and then preparations
to make ready the patient are COM
menced. The lower right arm is pune
tured, and a silver or glass canule is
entered. The patient is laid on his
back and the lamb carried to his side,
to be as near the right arm as possible.
The silver canule in the patients arm
is connected with the canule in the
lambs neck by gutta percha tube or
hose. It is, however, first saturated
with dissoluted soda, to prevent coagu-
lation of the blood. At the same mo-
ment, the silk threads that bind vein
and artery are loosened, and direct
TRANSMISSION is fact. The patients,
after the operati91, are curiously affect
ed.% DR.. Hasse, of Germany, has re-
corded these symptoms very clearly, and
his experience is the standard. The
arm into which the vital fluid is injected
warns perceptibly at the start. This
increase in temperature is supplemented
by slight difficulty in breathing. The
invalid has further sensations peculiar
to the process. He sees everything spir
around him, and his eyes seem as i
there were snow flakes falling before
them. At the conclusion of the opera
ton, the pulse falls, and sometimes
breathing appears to cease. An houl
or SO later, however, the heart beat!
normally, as though nothing unusua
had transpired. In a week or two {
scaly eruption covers the entire cuticl'
of the body, which, the physicians say
is an evidence that the strange BLOOD
has permeated to every portion of thu
system. It is always anticipated. TIL.
toning of the patient commences from
the moment of the absorption of th,
lambs blood" The consumptive pa
tients in this city who have received tn.
treatment are all alive and much i'm
| proved in strength, the condition of the
lungs remaining about the same, a.
though the disease was arrested, ye
not cured. Only one patient of the
eight has failed to receive benefit, ant
that one was suffering from scarcity O.
blood and kidney disease. Though th,
operation is delicate one, SO far al
those that have been undertaken her.
have been conducted without accident
The physicians do not claim that in ad
vanced stages of consumption the trans
fusion process can avail anything.
WONDERS OF THE THAMES
Eleven bridges cross the famous Rive
Thames, and over them go more peopl