The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-11-06


cies cannot mix with the blood Of
another species. 1t takes mans
blood to combine with mans
blood. You can't put Sleeps blood
into a mans vein without getting
into trouble.
The second difficulty is that
even with men some groups are
not compatible or mixable with
others. When one goes into the
vein of another, the blood of one
or the other clots. Still another
phenomenon occurs, which is the
blood of one person dissolves all
the red cells of another, but that
really doesn't make any trouble
so We disregard that.
Tour Blood Groups
The Blood Groups International
nomenclature with the proper
tionate incidence of the four
groups as found in millions of
persons:
O-43 per cent
40 per cent
b z per cent
Ado per cent
The technique of TRANSMISSION
for a while was fairly under
standable. But blood is made up
of plasma-clear fiuid-in which
float white and red corpuscles.
The red corpuscles take up 40 per
cent of the bulk of given amount
of blood. But also when they get
transfused into another person,
they make 40 per cent of the
trouble. So, since most people who
need TRANSMISSION need only serum
which will give their heart some
hulk to move around-salt trans
fusion which was first used did
not stay in the veins more than
half an hour-the idea was con-
ceived that the blood could be
withdrawn, centrifuged and al
lowed to settle and the blood plas-
ma alone used.
This has had many advantages.
The plssma keeps almost indeh-
nitely. And tests for compatibility
do not have to be made. In war
wounds in which the trouble is
simply loss of fluid, it works won
derfully, as it has been doing on
the battlefelds.
Serum Albumin
An improvement on this lately
is the use of serum albumin, which
is part of the plasma. 1t has
proved particularly valuable in
wounds and has the quality Of ac-
tually drawing the fluids from the
tissues into the blood vessels.
1t can not only be used in shock,
surgical shock and wounds with
loss of blood, but in certain cases
of dropsy.
But still a newer development
has made its appearance in the
blood TRANSMISSION scene. Blood
plasma gives the wounded or
shocked man fluid, but in prepar-
ing it there is terrible waste of
red cells-40 per cent of the en-
tire blood volume. 1t occurred to
some Philadelphia physicians that
this might be utilized also. There
are patients with anemia who
have plenty of plasma, but no red
cells. VOLTA! So they have begun
to use a TRANSMISSION in which they
give the red cells alone in suspen-
sion Of salt and sugar with good
- even temporary life-saving -
results.
So We are using all parts OF the
blood in various conditions for
TRANSMISSION with good results. It's
like the packers who saved every
part Of the animal but the squeal.
We let the patient furnish the
squeal.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
H. R.:-How do you kill the nits
or eggs Of lice on the hair of a
four year old girl, besides comb
ing them?
Answer: The combing is good,
but should be supplemented by
soaking the scalp thoroughly in
equal parts Of crude petroleum
and olive oil and the whole head
bandaged loosely. This dissolves
the glue which holds the nits TO the
hair and also kills the lice. The
mixture is infammable.