Blood Transfusion

Some reference has already been made in the first chapter to the rapid development in recent years of the technique of performing a blood transfusion. The earlier operators, owi...

The indications for blood transfusion are gradually becoming more numerous as experience of its effects accumulates, and there can be no doubt that the value of transfusion as a...

It is claimed that blood transfusion provides an efficient means of treatment in most conditions distinguished by symptoms of spontaneous hæmorrhage or by traumatic hæmorrhage w...

In the foregoing chapter the reactions between the blood groups and the morbid symptoms which may follow the injection of incompatible blood have been described. In the present...

From the earliest times the vital importance of blood to the human system has been fully appreciated. It has been supposed to carry in it some of the virtues, such as the youth...

Appreciation of the dangers attending the practice of blood transfusion has varied greatly at different times. In the seventeenth century a happy ignorance took no account of th...

The physiology of blood groups having been examined, the principles governing the choice of a blood donor can be more readily understood. It is evident that this choice is deter...