SHEEP'S BLOOD FOR MEN

Evening Star, Issue 19408, 17 November 1926, Page 13

SHEEP'S BLOOD FOR MEN

Sheep’s blood in .a man’s body! This statement, which Bounds like the old incantations of witchcraft, may soon represent an accomplishment in the field of medicine. Processor Yourevitch and Mile Teleguina, of Prague, Czechoslovakia, nave finished experiments that seem to show that when a human being loses a largo amount of blood, so that transfusion is necessary, blood can be taken from animals and injected into the man’s body to replenish the supply (says tlia. ‘ World Magazine’). This has always, been thought impossible. IndeedJ transfusion heretofore has been possiifie only between certain human beings qcjho happen to be in the same “blood apoup." The injection of animal blood, into the human body has been consiflared impossible without death resulting But the Czecho-Slp-valcian scientSifts have succeeded in “ washing ” tbfe red corpuscles of the blood to bo iiftjeoted, and in this way they saved a rjpbhit’s life by injecting sheep’s blood, r 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 foc*» long time.

boards that & had been decided to appoint a consultative committee, the Otago Board to be represented by the chairman, Messrs Boyd and Galloway, and the engineer-manager.—- The decision was approved.