BLOOD TRANSFUSION
A MOMENTOUS ACHIEVEMENT LONDON, November 4. What the eminent surgeon, Lord Moynihan, described as one of the most momentous achievements in surgical history was demonstrated at Leeds infirmary, when ,two French surgeons, Paucliet and Becart, conducted a new method of blood transfusion by means of an electrical appliance with two tubes. One tube takes the blood from the giver and the other transmits it to the patient in such a way that the rhythm of the passing blood is maintained exactly as though it was passing through the human system. The temperature of the blood is maintained, and its-con-dition ns it passes into the arteries is precisely the same as when it leaves the giver. The most important feature is that the appliance makes it impossible for blood to clot, thus removing the danger which surgeons frequently encounter in the course of blood transfusions.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22125, 1 December 1933, Page 10
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