Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23
A LATTER DAY HERO.
HOW A YOUNG SURGEON SAVED
A GIRLS LIFE.
Gives Up His Blood That II May BE
Transfused to n Dying Young
Woman.


Woman.
The worlds heroes are not all dead.
DR.. Franklin NJ. Kemp, the young
house surgeon at the Long Island Col
lege hospital, says dispatch from
New York, is the latest to take chances
with his own life to save that of an
other, a total stranger to him. Yes
terday morning two young women,
Grace Vrooman and Kate Pamphrey,
were taken to the hospital, apparently
dying. They had gone to sleep with
the gas escaping in their room, and
when discovered were gasping for
breath. From 9 O'Clock until II Dr.
Kemp and his associates worked on
the young women, and with success in
the case of Grace Vrooman, who rap
idly improved. The other woman,
however, continued to grow worse.
Every known science was brought TO
bear on Kate Pamphrey, but she was
looked upon by everybody as past all
remedy.
1t was at this juncture that DR..
Kemp came forward and offered his
OWL blood to save her. He argued
with the attending physicians then
gathered in the ward that the trans
fusion OF his blood would prolong her
life, and he brought down volumes of
medical works to substantiate the
feasibility of the operation. The case
is very rare one in hospitals. The
woman was by this time nearly dead,
and young Kemp conld not bear to see
her expire when she might be made to
rally. His ardor stirred the physicians,
who first warned him of the great dam
ger, and then declared they were
ready to proceed. The young surgeon
barred his arm Immediately.
The nurses and attendants mean
while carried the young woman into
the amphitheater and placed her on
the operating table. Fully 200 stu
dents were in the gallery. The Pamph.
rey woman was now black in the face.
Her chest heaved family and death
was not far off. DIR. Wight, the senior
surgeon of the hospital, and DIR. Rand
entered, and DIR. Kemp, with his big,
brawny arm bared to the shoulder, sat
on chair at the side of the table on
which the woman lay.
DIR. Rand, with a swift movement OF
his scalpel, removed the flesh on the
inside of Kemp's arm at the elbow,
and DR.. Wight made a similar incision
on the woman. DR.. Rand then took
tube to insert it in Kemp's vein for
the TRANSMISSION of blood, but the tube,
the best to be had at the time, was so
large that it severed the vein into two
parts. Then came the tug of war.
The woman was dying, and young
Kemp, needless OF his own troubles,
begged the surgeons to be quick. He
took no anesthetic, but with sponge
was first assistant to the operation on
himself. For 20 minutes DIR. Rand
was compelled to dissect away the
flesh covering the lower end of the
vein. The young surgeon never moved
but to wipe away with the sponge in
his right hand the blood that spurted
from the wound. Finally the vein
was recovered and the tube was in
serted.
For five minutes Kemp permitted
his own blood to flow into the w0man's
veins. After this his wounds were
dressed. The woman Immediately
improved, and to-day has the chances
in favor of her recovery. The danger
to which DR.. Kemp willingly exposed
himself will be readily seen when it is
known that during the operation had
one bubble of air passed from her body
through the tube into his, life, so far
as he was concerned, would have been
thing of the past.