SEPTICAEMIA.
TRANSFUSION OF BLOOD TREATMENT.
'HI CABLI—PEES3 ASSOCIATION—COPTBIGHI Beceived Dec. 29, 9.40 a m LONDON, Dec 28. The Daily Mail says that Dr! Almroth Wright's new method of treatment of the most serious cases of septicaemia by means of immune transfusion is being successfully carried out ■at St. Mary's Hospital. Dr. Wright found during wartime that the simple -transfusion of blood to a patient from -a healthy person often was of no avail. He therefore drew blood from a healthy "individual, mnoculated it with vaccine, "thereby raising its power to kill and then injected it into the patient. The newest treatment is to innoculate a healthy person with vaccine and then withdraw blood for injection.
Dr. Leonard Colebrook, of St. Mary's, states that the results which are at being obtained represent only a beginning, and it is probable that "with increasing knowledge we will be to effect greater immunisation of -donors of blood and achieve correspondingly betflbr curative results.— Sun Cables
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 29 December 1923, Page 7
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161SEPTICAEMIA. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 29 December 1923, Page 7
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