Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-29
Daring Operation Performed at
DR.. Groves Latter-Day
Saints Hospital.
UNCLE BAREs ARM TO KNIFE
Fred G. sanford, in Order to save
Sisters Child. Allows Life Fluid
To Be Pumped Into Veins.

Sanford Ash, a thirteen -year-year
old. invalid lies on a cot at the Dr.
Groves Latter-day Saints hospital
smiling today following unique OPP
Grafton which may or may not restore
him to his playmates i'll health and
vigor. AT the Western Arms and sport
ing Goods store his uncle, Fred c. san
ford is working with his arm bound
up. He, too, is smiling because the
surgeons hold out just the faintest
hope that his nephew will recover.
The surgeons and the hospital au-
thorities when interviewed this morn
ing both were non commital, the
former alleging that nothing ought to
be printed on the matter as it was al.
in the days work, it was not of pub
lie interest, and the outcome was yet
uncertain.
The mother. however, was willing 10
talk and to the Deseret News she told
the story of her boy who for three
years had been slipping away FROM
her into the Great Beyond. 1t seemed
that the inevitable was death with but
one chance--the performing of an OPP
Grafton which until yesterday had
never been attempted in the west, and
only in Boston, by way of experiment.
+. E
WITHOUT CHLOROFoRM.
A consultation Of the family was
held and in order to save the boys
life Fred c. Sanford volunteered to
give his blood SO that it could be
pumped into the arteries of his nephew.
Fred c. Sanford, who lives at 1926
south Eleventh East street. is mar
red man and the father OF three child
rem, but his wife chcerfully gave her
consent and the operation was per-
formed. Without administering chlor-
oform the surgeons opened the artery
in his arm and drew from his life's
supply nearly a pint and half Of
rich red blood. This was pumped into
the arm of the lad and when enough
| in the opinion of the doctors as
sembled had been drawn the incisions
were closed and the wounds bandaged
The surgeons who performed the op-
GRAFTON were Drs. Stephen. Gill and
Ralph Richards.
Il STRUGGLE TO RETAIN LIFE.
! Three years ago the boy was com
| PEELED to give up play on account o.,
weakness In November he was obs
! liged to take TO his bed and lays there
| for four months. He rallied some
what daring the following April ana
| went to school only to go back to bed
for four months. And that is the way
it went All that the loving care Of
a mother could do for him seemed
without avail He WAS subject 10
frequent and violent hcmorrfages and
would bleed from the nose, mouth and
bowels at the slightest exertion. Phys
icians examined him repeatedly but
We're baftled. To them it appeared that
( the blood vessels of the little patient
We're weak and prone to burst, Time
and time again the lad was given up
for dead having apparently bled to
death and time and time again he
rallied to get stronger only to break
down again. There was not the re-
quisite nourishment in his veins to
mend the ruptured tissues
LAST AND ONLY HOPE.
AS last source the infusion OF
strong healthy blood into his veins
was the suggestion. II had been done
before in similar case, why would
it not succeed in this?
The question was where was suit
able subject. to be found? Then the
uncle. who is a strong and healthy
gunsmith and bicycle repairer, vol
unteered. He was accepted by the
doctors and prepare lions were under
way for the operation which has
created quite a stir in the profession
In the meantime the boy smiles
while his mother prays. the uncle looks
happy and hopes for the best and tie
layman paraphr.Ees Holy Writ and
murnurs, "Grester love hath no man
than this. that he giveth his blood for
another"