The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1914-04-17
GOOD news OF
JOHN c. c. Mayo.
Condition Very Encouraging. Trans
fusion Of Blood Produced
Wonderful Effect.

just before going to press tele
phone message from Mrs. John &C..
Mayo at Cincinnati stated that Mr.
Mayo is materially improved His
pulse and temperature are normal and
his mental condition is good. tle .as
eaten eggs and toast and otker light
diet. II no further complications lie,
velop, his chances for recovery are
excellent
When the NEWS went to r,reas last
week the condition of Mr. Mayo was
considered almost hopeless. Tbs ply
sicians had just decided % Try Il
TRANSMISSION of blood. Tests were
made of blood from several men, but
that Of Mr.. Mayo's protner, Washing
ton l. Mayo, was found to rncst nctr-
ly meet the requirements. DIR, L!rde-
man was called from New TO,k 10 as
sist in the TRANSMISSION, he being an
expert in this work and the inventor
OF the best device mace TO- the m,r-
pose. The operation took plrce Fri
day afternoon, with the most "ncoUr-
aging results.
on Sunday his condition Began 10
grow worse and another TRANSMISSION
was decided upon. II took place Mon
day at noon. His brother again sup
piled the blood, and the results were
again satisfactory.
The Cincinnati Enquirer If Las Sat
urday gave the following aGcaInt Of
the first operation:
The veins of John c. c. Mayo, Ken
lucky capitalist. are today pulsing
with pint and half of additional
warm. rich blood transfused from the
arm of his brother Washington Mayo
The TRANSMISSION was effected at
o'clock Friday afternoon. when the
patients pulse was far below normal
and his temprature was l01. Satur-
day morning at / O'Clock Wilkinson
his attending physician, gave out the
following bulletin
"The TRANSMISSION was undoubtedly
success. and Mr.. Mayo is now rest
very well, with a normal pulse and
temperature something he has not
experienced in many weeks The
change was perceptible in a few
hours.
When II was decided by the special
lists that a TRANSMISSION was necessary
Washington Mayo, a brother OF the
patient, who is a large normal, heal
thy man, offered himself to the ply
sicians. The pint and half OF blood
taken from his veins appeared not tC
effect him in any way and he stated
that he was willing to continue the
experiment as long as the physicians
would use him.
The following is from the Lexing-
ton Leader of last Sunday:
Congressman Bascom c. Slemp, OF
| Virginia, partner with Mr.. J. c, c
Mayo in many of his Eastern Ken
turky enterprises, arrived in Lexing
, ton last night from Cincinnati, bear
| ing with him the most encouraging
news that has yet come from the bed
side of the Paintsville coal operator
"You can imagine how we felt,
said Mr., Slemp. The doctors told us
he had one chance, just one chance
to live That was in TRANSMISSION,
"His stomach has been sound
throughout the whole trouble, diuretics
have been persistently used to stimu-
late his kidneys, and his whole system
has made splendid efforts to rebuild
the broken down tissues and carry
away the poisons formed by the OBJ
structions. His blood, however, was
not rich enough in red corpuscles to
carry on the fight in his weakened
condition, and one resource after an
other of the physicians which at first
helped for a day, later strengthened
him but an hour.
| "Had the blood TRANSMISSION failed
Mr.. Mayo could not have lived tive
hours longer. Yesterday he had one
chance to recover, Today the doc
tors said he had every chance His
brothers blood was not selected until
the blood of half dozen men had
been tested. Three men came down
from Paintsvllle for the purpose, but
Washington Mayo's blood was de-
cided to be the most compatible"
"a new method of transfusing the
blood was tried on Mr.. Mayo, which
was said to be vast Improvement
over the old method, which was to
connect the veins of the two men by
tube. and pump the blood across
1t was done In Mr.. Mayo's case, by
simply taking the blood from the
brothers vein and transfusing it into
the patients with an instrument like
a hypodermic syringe. 1t enabled the
doctors to measure accurately the
amount transfused. which was the
chief advantage claimed
"The change In Mr. Mayo was al
most instantaneous. Before the OPP
GRAFTON he lay with his mouth open
and his eyes staring, gasping for
breath and only half conscious of what
was going on around him. For weeks
he has had only short lucid periods
and his sleep has not been natural
Within an hour after the TRANSMISSION
his mind completely cleared, and In
n perfectly natural way he fell asleep
He was doing so wen that II was de-
cided not to make the second trans
fusion until tomorrow.
III is almost certain that he will get
well II the new fresh blood In his
veins can do the great amount OF
work necessary TO repair the ravages
that the disease has made. and de-