Researches Physiological and Pathological (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SOME REMARKS ON THE OPERATION OF TRANSFUSION. In common with many of my most intelligent friends, I have long entertained an opinion, that notwithstanding the improvements which have been already made in surgery, there are still many operations of importance which may be added to the science. Among these operations, transfusion may, I think, fairly rank as one; and it is with a view of keeping this valuable operation before the profession, and in the hope of adding somewhat to the body of facts by which it may be still further illustrated, that I am induced again to make it the subject of a memoir. Wjjjhput pretending to give an enumeration of all the cases in which transfusion may be tried, with a fair prospect of advantage, I may observe, that there are some cases, in which the practical utility of it is both great and obvious. 1. I remember being called once to a-poor woman in my neighbourhood, who had lost a large quantity of blood after her placenta had been taken away. When I saw her, the he- morrhagy was stopped, but she was evidently sinking; and, notwithstanding the assiduous use of all the ordinary remedies, she died in the course of two hours after the first eruption of the blood. 2. By a friend of mine, on the other side of the water, I was requested, some two or three years ago, to give advice in a case very similar to this. The blood came away from the womb, during, and after the birth of the placenta; and the patient died in the course of three or four hours afterwards, throughout greater part of which time she was obviously sinking, notwithstanding the ordinary remedies were actively tried. 3. A poor fellow, in one of our hospitals, lost a great quantity of blood in consequence of an injury of the leg; but, although it was pretty evident that d...