TO SAVE HIS WIFE.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXVI, Issue 4469, 8 September 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)

TO SAVE HIS WIFE.

SENATOR UNDERGOES BIG ORDEAL.

A recent telegram from Washington to the Now lork “ Times.” states that Mr. Luke Lea, the 30-year-pld Senator liom lennessee, had to give a quart of his blood to save the life of his wife, who has been in bad health for a long time Smco an operation she'had gradually declined, until the officials of Georgetown University Hospital decided that transfusion of Wood ‘was nocossarv to prevent her sinking. t . il ,T I "’ as !\° question as to where the blood would come from. The youthShlto «f° r •'! ° Ver 6f *-- ta U. a college , . , of not many years aco nnd of in.Sd C °tte fhws hw health. Ho insisted that his blood, Should be used thftlt'T f/ l f ded th . a f if tests showed woldr fc hn l d f ? se , ,vltl V M,s - Lea’s, he nould bo operated on .for the purpose Mrs° *Loa,’q° ™.°,rf• CO-U * d completed, -ii.s. Leas condition was pronounced sn sk: .Sf t ' l - fear's aVtS with tbaTf a Lcm Sb the°faboratory tion fewest £*** 8,,d °pera„transfusion continued for about or? +V- jV' j—ly tbo colour was rostor--0 .uO nei bps and cheeks. But as sho gained tho flush faded from tliQ cheeks $ hi* ti>o»gul.S “51 o. himself, and when the transfusion had continued for an hour and a half reU ,n ?hn tl “ K ’ d r 16 not to arassib P of ‘°'o W ldo thore tho poasibihiy of a doubt as to ..tho out- - rho n . s h r geons, realising tho

. opera , t: . on Senatoi- Lea fell diatilv T n i a fa J nt J ™s ini mi reS m H; t Ho was able of ‘AI ever, with the assistance i , attendant-tor walk' to his wife’s bedside. Not the least favourable ele£3 , m mental .attitude m.conscience of- Mrs. a ; su^geonVbave iwjired .Inm that withoutr-hw »Mrs. Lea could have lived? Hut a few ; hours.? . . * , iJV . , f . ,• It- willr.bo two or; three cfava "before Mrs., L«t, .is .altogetlrer eiit~M ■^Si.^e ; her avmntoins are favourable, altiumfeli she is still very weak.