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Blood Transfusions

Sir, —D. Davey quotes a personal use of normal saline replacing blood. Blood is as complex in its composition as the. food we eat to repair and build body tissue. Why use only sodium chloride and water to replace the whole? To say “blood can serve no purpose whatever in sickness of any kind” is a sweeping and untrue statement. Qualified professional men the world over will deny it. To say patients were as “white asi chalk and as cold as stone” sug-| gests to me they were subjected to undue suffering, extended illness, and an unwarranted extra charge on our social security funds. As one who has recently suffered a severe anaeimia, I know its misery; as a taxpayer, I know its heavy drain on my purse. The medical profession must consider a patient’s economic welfare in treatment. Some revision of thinkihg seems to be warranted here.—Yours, etc, GOD GAVE US BRAINS TO USE. July 6, 1960.

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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29250, 7 July 1960, Page 7

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Blood Transfusions Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29250, 7 July 1960, Page 7

Blood Transfusions Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29250, 7 July 1960, Page 7