The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-03
Alarming Effects Of the TRANSMISSION
of Blood.

Alarming Effects Of the Transmission
of Blood.
The theory and practice of the trans
:usion of blood have attained such favor
among the medical profession that hos
oital has been established in Des Moines
or the purpose OF treating patients by
his method. The success Obtained has
,een wonderful. DR.. Anthony G. Lang
was the founder of the hospital, and I'M
Ter his skillful manipulation hundreds
have become new men.
Some of his experiments and their re-
suits are full of interest to the world at
arge as well as to the parties operated
upon. Rev. Phineas Reilley, a worthy
clergyman of the Methodist Church, was
brought to the hospital in the last stages
Of consumption-that is to say, he was
In the last stages of consumption, al
though he was brought in barouche.
His breath was nearly gone, in fact it
was gone, and he was using for initiating
purposes WIND manufactured by Q pair
OF bellows. He would have died several
months before if it had not been for the
avarice of life insurance company that
hired man to work the bellows to keep
him breathing until his policy expired.
He was brought to the hospital in the
morning, much exhausted on account of
having missed several breaths from the
bellows, as the operator quit pumping
twenty minutes while absent getting q
sidel of beer. After allowing the rev.
erend gentleman to rest a few hours
the doctor prepared him for the opera
ton. He had been ill so long that he
was almost bloodless, and considerable
of the sanguinary fluid was necessary A
large, sturdy fireman, one of the stoutest
members of Chief StOll's official family,
was persuaded to furnish supply. The
clergyman's arm was punctured, and a
tube inserted, the other end of which was
fastened to an open vein in the firenlan's
arm. Three quarts of blood were trans
fused. While the minister was receiv-
ing the first quart there was no particu-
lar change in his condition. BY the
time the second quart was we'll under
way he regained his lost color and
shouted for a fireman's hat. Then he
called for the boys to run, and offered to
put head on the doctor, whom he &C.
cused OF stepping on the hose. After
awhile he fell into deep sleep, aud
when he awOke he was we'll man. But
the cure left him changed man. Be-
fore he had been extremely quiet; now
he was restless and uneasy and always
slept with one ear wide awake listening
tor the fire bell. One night he dreamed
that an alarm was being sounded on the
East Side. He started up and, grabbing
his wife by the big toe, attempted to reel
her around the bed post. He seized her
by the ear and yelled through it to the
boys, supposing it was trumpet. Then
he nearly twisted her nose off, thinking
he was turning on the water at q Holly
hydrant, and by this time he had got
awake and was ashamed of himself.
A celebrated lawyer was transfuscd,"
a noted stock-breeder furnishing the san
guineous fountain. The cure was per-
feet, but the attorneys ideas on Black
stone and Durham became so confused
that he was eventually compelled to re-
tire from the practice of his profession.
In his first case, after recovering, he
commenced to make a plea for his client,
accused of larceny, as follows: elf it
please the Short Horn Court, my client
is the victim of Thoroughbred con-
spiracy. Although of honorable parent
age he was arrested by this six distinct
crosses of constable and hurled into a
foul dungeon, charged with being Dew
onshire thief. Gentlemen of the jury, if
you have the hearts of Spanish Merinos,
the injustice of such Berkshire accusa-
ton must forcibly impress itself upon
your Hambletonian fancy" By this
time the Judge decided the case against
him and he retired from the bar and be-
came a market ga r6ener
But the most wonderful change was in
an insurance agent. He was A No. in
his liue up to the time when he became
too weak to work. Time and again he
had set his countenance unscathed
against the side of granite mountain. On
one occasion he went fooling around the
rear of vicious mule. When the ami
NAL resented the familiarity, half of it's
hind hoof was sheared away by contact
with the agents cheek. But he fell, and
bloodless and pallid was borne to the
TRANSMISSION Hospital. A fat, robust
minister offered his arm for the pur-
pose, and soon the insurance mans
veins were swelling with crimson
and Calvinistic gore. The agent
was cured, but the influence of the
theology part of his anatomy entirely
untitled him for soliciting Insurance.
The first man he tackled, after recovery,
was farmer, very deaf, and the proprie-
tor of new and unpolicied barn. The
agent rode up to the venerable Granger
and shouted the time of day with a re-
m ark that thunderstorm was coming
and barns were particularly exposed to
lightning. Then he took breath and
commenced the tale with which, before
his sickness, he had terrified scores of
wearied customers. But it didn't work.
Said he: Your barn, my friend, is con-
stantly exposed to eternal perdition.
There is no safety for barns except in
infant baptism. Original sin and the hay
stacks surrounding them mitigate against
the infallible policies with 5 per cent. off
for cash." Here he stopped to take an
other breath, and here the farmer shout
ed: "Mariar, turn loose Towser, and
tell John to bring pitchfork; here's a
crazy fellow from Des Moines." The
agent didn't wait to interview the dog,
but lit out for home. He has abandoned
insurance and runs moral peanut stand.
The doctors cures are infallible, but
he has had much difficulty in mating the
subjects operated upon. An evening
newspaper man had his veins filed with
gore from Southdown sheep Ever
since he can only write on the subject of
caper- sauce, and has a continual banker
ing for red clover. Hereafter the doctor
proposes to be more particular, and
avoid any such misfortune.-Iooa State
Register
The Hackman In Court.
"Your name is-is-what?" asked the
Court.
"Davey, sir-George Davcy."
Sand you work at-what?"