The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-08-11

The HTOXpeSS Oh Sc1cuCcsssD -
F., able Effects of the New Practice.
Miraculous Cases of Restoration
from Impending DissolutfOn--Hu'
| man Life Saved by n supply of the
| vital Fluid from the Lower Order
| OF Animals.
! Among the many evidences of the
march of science which signalize the
present age as the one most remark
able in the worlds history, there is
| nothing more startling in its workings
!, than the TRANSMISSION of blood into the
| human system.
| To the French, we believe, IS the
world indebted for the novel discOv-
cry, among whom it has been tested
by experts in surgery with the best
| proofs of success.
| England and Germany we're quick
, to follow in the new theory, and as
| soon as the lightning flashed the in
telligence through the depths of the
ocean that in the creation OF d new
supply of blood In systems wasted
away by lingering disase. or depleted
| by sudden rupture of blood vessels,
there was possibility of saving life,
| the Yankee nation, which SO readily
| adapts itself to the development OF
| new ideas, stood in the fore front OF
the ranks of science and is to-day dis
putting the palm with the sayants OF
the Old World.
Several eases we'll authenticated
have recently been reported where
the new practice has been resorted to
in New York, Pbiladelphia, and Bos-
ton with the most gratifying results.
More latterly several cases have been
made In the West, terminating with
but one exception. we believe, (t(fat
of the Hon. F. P. Blair, of st. Louis),
in highly satisfactory manner.
Two or three new cases are now re-
ported, very interesting accounts of
which we find set forth in detail in
our exchanges, one a young lady at
Litchfield, Connecticut, who from
violent hemorrhage, superinduced by
a serious accident from fall, was so
re luced as to sink rapidly, indicating
speedy death. At this critical june
ture, as last remedy. her physicians
resorted to the transfusion of blood
from healthy sheep into the veins
of the dying girl, when most.wonder-
full to relate, very soon the tinge of
returning vitality succeeded the palor
of death. From the day of the oper-
alton, her Improvement has been
steady and her recovery assured. She
is now on visit to friends in Wis
consin.
4 no less remarkable case is that of
Mr.. Hendrickson, of Newark. n. j..
A violent attack of pneumonia, aggra-
waited by hemorrhage produced by
running rapidly to fire prostrated
him to that degree as to leave no hope
OF his recovery, save by TRANSMISSION in
accordance with the new theory.
This was resorted to few weeks ago,
and quite recently letters have been
received from him by anxious friends,
in which he speaks of his cure as
miraculous, and saying that he never
felt as well in his life In this case
the blood was taken from a healthy
goat
During the month of March last
lady by the name of Haberstein, re-
siding in Chicago, from severe lung
hemOrrhage had become reduced to a
mere skeleton, her vital forces well
nigh exhausted, and her pulsations
almost entirely stopped. Recourse
was had ms IN the case of MIR. Hen
Erickson to supplying the emaciated
frame Of the patient by blood from a
goat. Sixteen ounces OF the fluid were
thus injected in her veins, which
leaped through her arteries with al :
most miraculous effects. She speedily
revived. and a marked Improvement
at once set IN.
Nourishing food and proper stimu-
lants indiciously administered per-
fected the cure, and Mrs Haberstein
is to-day SO far restored as to be up
and attending to light household du-
ties.
Still another case, although almost
identical with the one last named,
both in its pathology and treatment,
occurred in Grand Eapids. Michigan,
In a family we'll known to gentleman
resident in this city. The MoDUs
oPERANDI of supplying the decayed
system with the life giving fluid is
both novel and interesting, and is en-
titled to passing notice. The sheep
or other animal is securely bound, its
feet pinioned and. after shaving the
wool from the side of the neck, an
opening is made in the carotid artery
simultaneously with an incision in the
basillic vein OF the arm of the patient,
a glass tube being inserted In both
openings.
At this point the skill of the sur
geon ceases, and the sheep uncon-
sciously takes the case and does the
The beatings of its heart
acting like the valve in pump,
causes the red blood to flow through
the tube, nourishing the ebbing life
of the patient and restoring the quick
pulsations necessary to healthy ac-
tion of the heart and other vital or
gans.
At the suspension of the operation
the animal is released, and its wounds
being dressed. it goes it's way, brows-
ing on the green grass as though
had happened, while the pa
tient, as before stated, with renewed
life and vigor speedily recuperates,
and goes forth as one raised from the
dead.
Altogether diagnosis of the case
presents most remarkable advance |
in the scientific world, and the as
founding results flowing from the
practical operation of TRANSMISSION OF |
blood into the human system as life !
giving principle proclaim it as one of |
The grandest discoveries of the nine
teeth century.
A Look Around the World.