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This article is presented as an informal review of certain experiences and impressions received and observed in 1,000 transfusions by a whole blood method, the technic of which is described by one of us1 elsewhere.Blood transfusion belongs to the newer advances in medicine and surgery. No therapeutic agent is more specific than transfusion to supply deficiency and replace loss of the circulating medium of the body. Transfusion is no longer a physiologic experiment, its success depending on the gymnastics of blood vessel surgery. It is proper that such a valuable procedure as the transferring of blood from one person to another, with all its attending possibilities, should receive both attention and popularity. Like other novel procedures designed for the treatment of the sick, blood transfusion, owing to insufficient investigation, unsatisfactory understanding and fertility of the imagination, has been the cause of false hopes and dreams. It is our |
