The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-12-10
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
Transfusian Operation Is Made as
Soon as the Bargain Between Buy
or 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
guest Of Mills Hotel No. sold M
teen ounces of his life fluid, thereby
probably saving the life of John Den
nison. Is years old, patient suffer
ing from malignant growth on the
right le". There was nothing heroic
about the manner in which the man
sold his blood. 1t was purely bus
mess proposition. The NILS Hotei
man needed the ten-spot and felt he
could spare the blood. The father
of the patient, though 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 ratn-
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 were anxious 10
transfuse the blood of healthy per-
son into the body Of the boy.
"The doctors want strong man
who is healthy In every way" the
father explained.
guest registered as Mark owen,
who refused to tell anything further
about himself, stepped forward, and
remarked he would like to know
more about it.
Big, broad-shouldered, with the
glow of health in his checks, he
looked as If he would pass the test OF
the physicians.
81 guess you'll do" said Dennison,
How much blood do you want?'
asked Owen,
Fifteen ounces"
How much do | get?"
Ten dollars"
I'm your man." and the bargain
was struck. The rate was &C 20
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 Tor
$40. and told him he would do. The
nature of the operation then was eX
planned TO him.
He was told that the patient was
suffering from what is known as sar'
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 transfuse IL
the body about fifteen ounces OF
healthy fluid.
81 don't want to be chloroformeC
during the operation" Owen said.
mo anaesthetics will be given
replied one of the surgeons wei
deaden the pain by an injection o
cocaine"
Go ahead" said Owen. I'm
ready"
Dennison was placed on the op
Grating table and owen was laid OF
another table. Between the two wa
a narrow table upon which the bo
and the man each placed an arm
The surgeons made an incision /
he boys upper arm and blood wa
permitted to iow from tho Cpie
part of the median vein, while the
over part was closed. In this wa
he boy was relieved of about Sly
cen ounces of his impure and III
lourlshed blood. An incision the
as made in the forearm of the mai
he surgeons rapidly connected I'll
over ligament of the mans rad';
rtery with the upper vein of th
cy's arm, and the blood of the ma
can to pass into the body OF tf
cy.
Dcnnison and owen watched eae
: .Aer coolly throughout the oper
on. Not a whimpcr came from II
oy. not a groan from the ma
!. hen the operation was over tl
u .y's temperature showed mark'
. 'proyement,
owen was weak after the oper
IN. He took stimulant and th'
ii the hospital, not forgetting,
purse, to collect his $40 befo
. aving.