The Washington bee., 1908-12-12
SELLS HIS BLOOD
At BARGAIN RATE
Man Charges $40 to Give Up
Is Ounces of Life Fluid to
Save Boys Life.
PATIENTS FATHER CLOSES DEAL.
TRANSMISSION Operation is Made as
Soon as the Bargain Between Buy
er and Seller Was StruCk-Man
and Boy Eyed Each Other During
Operation.

New York City.-Human blood
went at bargain-counter prices in
Bellevue Hospital when for $40 a
guest of Mills Hotel No. sold If
teen ounces of his life fluid thereby
probably saving the life of John Den
nison, 15 years old, a patient suffer
ing from malignant growth on the
right leg. There was nothing heroic
about the manner in which the man
sold his blood 1t was purely bus
iness proposition. The Mills Hotel
man needed the ten-spot and felt he
could spare the blood. The father
of the patient. tho Oh poor. felt he
could spare the $40 in view of his
sons need for the fresh blood.
Striking a bargain between buyer
and seller was easy. DennisOn's faith
er went to Mills Hotel No. and
announced he was in the market for
human blood. He explained that his
son was in Bellevue Hospital and
that the surgeons we're anxious to
transfuse the blood OF healthy per-
son into the body OF the boy.
THE doctors want a strong man
who is healthy in every way" the
father explained.
A guest registered as Mark Owen,
who refused to tell anything further
about himself, stepped forward, and
remarked he would like to know
more about 1t.
Big, bToad-shouldered, with the
glow of health in his cheeks, he
looked as if he would pass the test OF
the physicians.
''I guess you'll dc" said Dennison.
How much blood do you want3"
asked Owen.
Fifteen ounces"
How much do ] get?"
Ten dollars"
I'm your man." and the bargain
was struck The rate was sc "a
cents an onuce.
Up to Bellevue Hospital marched
Dennison and Owen. The surgeons
examined the man who was willing
to sell fifteen ounces of his blood for
$40, and told him he would do. The
nature of the operation then was ex-
planned to him
He vas told that the patient was
suffering from what is known as SAT
coma, a malignant growth. To save
the boys life it was necessary to take
from his body about sixteen ounces
of the impure blood and tTansfuse in
the body about fifteen ounces of
healthy fluid.
Il don't want to be chloroformed
during the operation" Owen said.
mo anaesthetics will be given"
replied one of the surgeons Wen
deaden the pain by an injection of
cocaine"
Go ahead" said Owen. I'm
ready"
Dennison was placed on the op-
Grating table and Owen was laid on
another table Between the two was
a narrow table upon which the boy
and the man each placed an arm.
The surgeons made an incision in
the boys upper arm and blood was
permitted to flow from the upper
part of the median vein, while the
lower part was closed. In this way
the boy was relieved of about six
teen ounces of his impure and un-
nourished blood. An incision then
gas made in the forearm of the man.
2 ,urgeons rapidly connected the
lover Hgament of the mans radiai
srtery with the upper yeiu of the
boys arm, and the bloo[ The man
began to pass into the ldY Of the
boy.
Dennison and Owen watched each
other cOolly throughout the opera
ton. Not whimper came from the
boy, not q groan from the man.
When the operation was over the
boys temperature showed marked
Improvement.
Owen was weak after the opera
ton He took a stimulant and then
left the hospital, not forgetting, Of
course. to collect his $40 before
leaving.
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