SHEEP'S BLOOD FOR MEN
Sheep's blood in a man's body! Thi3 statement, which sounds like the old incantations of witchcraft, may soon represent an accomplishment in the field of medicine. Professor Yourevitch and Mile. Teleguina, of Prague, Czechoslovakia, have finished experiments that seem to show that when a human being loses a largo amount of blood, so that transfusion is necessary, blood can bo taken from animals and injected into the man's body to replenish the supply (says the "World Magazine"). This has always been thought impossible. Indeed, transfusion heretofore has been possible only between certain human beings who happen to bo in the same "blood group." The injection of animal blood into tho human body has been considered impossible without death resulting. ' But the Czecho-Slovakian scientists have succeeded in "washing" the red corpuscles of the blood to be injected, and in this way tEey saved a rabbit's life by injecting sheep's blood. They suggest that the sheep's blood could also save human lives, and, furthermore, that the blood could be bottled up and stored for an emergency for a, long time. _. ... • -■'■■ --- ...,
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 117, 13 November 1926, Page 20
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182SHEEP'S BLOOD FOR MEN Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 117, 13 November 1926, Page 20
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