RADIO-ACTIVE BLOOD

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 October 1931, Page 2

RADIO-ACTIVE BLOOD

ITALIAN EXPERIMENTS ROME, October 3. Dr. Giocindo Protti believes that the blood is radio-active, and capable, when taken from one person and injected in small quantities into another, of stimulating; the cells of a sick body with healthy hormones and re-estab-lishing normal conditions. Dr. Protti, who has been engaged in experiments over a number of years, and has published a bdok on the possibility of enlarging the field of therapeutics by radiations from blood injections, follows, in a measure, the line of research taken by Sir Albert Abrahams and the German, Gurswitsch. The transfusion of blood, as ordinarily practised, is quite a different process to that recomended by Dr. Prot-

ti. It is a substitution, whereas the very small quantity of blood taken from the veins of one person and injected into the muscle of another acts as a stimulant.

According to Dr. Protti, the blood emits radiations capable of creating in the body a flow of electrons. The radiations of the blood vary according to the type and state of health of the person. They have wave-lengths of their own, which can vary with varying conditions. In the course of his experiments, Dr. Protti has discovered that human blood is not equally radio-active in all people. In some cases, ’ the radio-ac-tivity may be designated by the figure 90; in other cases it runs as low as 25 or 30. In cases of ill-health it may be non-existent. The blood of even perfectly healthy young people differs greatly in its radio-active potentialities, Mr. Protti said.