‘FREAK’ BLOOD DONOR
AN ELDERLY AUSTRALIAN SYDNEY, May 21. An Australian, aged 60, has given 2 gallons 6J pints of blood to the Red Cross and Sydney hospitals in transfusions in two years and four months. He is Mr. John Wiltshire, carrier, of Rozelle, who says that his doctor calls him a freak, because he can give a large quantity of blood and go back to work directly afterward without feeling ill-effects. After having given 500 grammes of blood to the Red Cross the other day, Mr. Wiltshire said that he felt fit and ready to give more. “Anaemic people should follow my example and drink plenty of sarsaparilla,” he said. “I have two cups of tea, with raw eggs dropped in them, for breakfast. I eat no lunch, and have a hot but small dinner. “I don’t drink, but I like a smoke now and then." Since he first offered his blood when one of his employees ruptured an artery in 1939, Mr. Wiltshire has given blood’ to every large hospital in Sydney.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20804, 6 June 1942, Page 5
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