Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-02-28
BLOOD.

Blood is the prime factor of building Up
the hnman system, for "the blood thereof is
the life thereof" IF the blood be diseased
or poisoned the whole system suffers, and
unless the disease is removed death must
ensue. For many years the TRANSMISSION Of
blood has been practiced by physicians with
more or less of success, and in particular
cases it is unquestionable that life has been
prolonged through that agency.
There have recently been come curious
experiments made in Denver, Col, by Mr..
GA. Armitage and his friend, Mr.. James
L. Finch, an account of which was given in
the Denver Daily NewS. These gentlemen
took u medium sized terrier dog, and by an
iucision in one Of the arteries of his neck,
bled him to death. The dog passed through
all the symptoms of dying blood ceased to
flow from his wound; his eyes became gaz-
ed and his frame fixed and rigid. The room
was kept at summer temperature, and the
dog lay there fur three hours apparently
dead, stiff and cold Then the body WAS
placed in O warm bath which was maintain.
ed at a temperature of 1862 Fab. The body
was gently rubbed, and the limbs moved in
order to give them pliancy. Half pint of
hot water was then passed into his stomach
through rubber tube, and, when this was
done, the mouth of a rubber tube, attached
to bellows, was introduced into his wind
pipe, the bellows being provided with a
double valve, by which the air could be ex-
hailed as well as inhaled.
At this stage of the proceeding g large
Newfoundland dog was securely tied near
by and bled The attending surgeon there
upon proceeded to adjust the transfusing
apparatus and to slowly inject the live
dogs blood into the veins of the dead
one. The parties awaited the result with
intense anxiety, for the success Of the ex-
pertinent reached out much further than
the dumb animal operated upon. II the
dog could be brought back TO life under
such circumstances why could not men and
women be revived after an apparently fatal
loss Of blood? The issue was momentous.
Let us see the result.
In few moments convusive tremor
was observable in the terriers body. After
a pint Of fresh blood had been injected u
change took place in the dogs eye, aud, in
q moment or two after, the animal began
tube, which was at once withdrawn. The
dog then began to struggle, as if in fit,
gasping for breath. but meanwhile his eyes
press was then placed on the artery. and
within twenty-five minutes after the first
blood was injected the dog partook Of some
broth which had been prepared, and after
wards showed no symptoms of relapse.
He was kept warm and in two days ran
about the streets as if nothing strange had
happened.
like experiment was afterwards made
upou a calf though for greater convenience
hot yapor bath was substituted for the
warm water immersion The case was,
however, equally successful and to make
the expected result more emphatic, the
body of the calf was left for twelve hours
before resuscitation was attempted. A dog
that had been drowned was also, though
with great difficulty, brought to life; but in
the case of another dog which had been
strangled and frozen, the attempt proved
unsuccessful.
To physicians and Psychologists these ex-
periments must prove strangely interest
ing.-Ne'U Orleans City Item.