Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-10-17
BLOOD TRANSFUSI0r.
A STRANGE REMEDY THAT WAS
ONCE IN REPUTE. u

Notable Cases of Attempted Trans
fusion of the Persons Blood into
Another's veins-U Using the Blood
of Oxen.
The present discussions respecting the
newly found elixir of DIR. Brown
Sequard recall to the mind what has
been said and done during the last four
centuries in regard to the direct trans
fusion of the blood, and the kindred
therapeutic methods that prescribed
blood drinking and blood bathing for
the use of certain patients
There are legends of masculine and
feminine tyrants who, in ancient times,
tried, like Tiberius and others, to re-
cover strength and health through
drinking or bathing i'll the blood of
young boys and girls they caused to be
put to death. But the first authenti-
Gated case of attempted blood transfu.
sion was in 1892, the year America was
discovered. After Pope Innocent VII,
who suffered from a poverty Of blood"
that caused him frequent faints and q
continuous drowsiness, had been de-
clared incurable by his six physicians, a
Cardinal asked them whether he could
not be saved by having the blood of
some strong individual transfused into
his veins. The doctors answered that
this might happen, but that. on account
| of possible consequences, the Pope's
consent should first be obtained. The
Pontiff consented, after having been
told that the operation would consist in
introducing into his veins the blood eff
q healthy person through the medium
of thin tube which would pump out
the blood and introduce it instantly and
painlessly in the vein, because the
puncture of the vein would be very
light, and very small also would be the
extremity of the tube introduced into
it. A strong and healthy boy, of the
Campagna Romano, or country around
Rome, was picked out, but the opera
ton could not be accomplished. The
doctors were not used to it. They tried
uselessly with second subject. A third
one, big fellow looking like a gladia-
tor, offered himself. The blood flowed
easily from his veins into the tube, and
thence into the vein of the Pope. But
the latter became alarmed and withdrew
his arm suddenly, SO that air entered
the opened vein. This is said to have
caused his death. Such is the legend.
A few years later the same Cardinal
who had advised this weird remedy for
the Pope lay dying from a hemorrhage
which nothing could stop. He caused a
young Florentine boy to give him por-
ton OF his blood, on payment of 1000
scudi, or about $4,000, pretty large
sum for that time. yet not too dear, if
ha fol rc,f t,s, L.
nal recovered and lived for twenty years
longer.
In the seventeenth century another
Italian physician is said to have ''oper-
ated" the TRANSMISSION of blood upon
many patients, in particular upon
consumptive person, who twas bled at
first in order to draw out all the bad
blood. !" The result, says the chronicler
OF the time, was admirably satisfactory
In this case, as in many others; all the
patients recovered health and lived for
many years, celebrating tho marvellous
physician.
Blood TRANSMISSION entered from that
moment, for the time being, into the
regular methods of medicine as then
practiced; and doctors from England,
France, Spain, etc., went to Italy to
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