The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) Tue 15 Jun 1937 Page 7
BIOLOGIST MEETS
SUCCESS
Discoveries In Blood
Transfusion
EXPERIMENTS IN SPAIN
VALENCIA, June 13.
According to an American biologist,
Mr. Herman J. Muller, who has been
conducting research for the past two
months with the Hispano-Canadian In-
stitute into blood transfusion, bleeding
to death from wounds can be appreciably checked.
He declares that the vital elements can now be kept alive
in the blood outside the body and
coagulation prevented, enabling trans-
fusion within a fortnight.
Dr. Norman Bethune organised in
Madrid a service of blood donors, who
were fed, but not paid. The blood
was collected at base hospitals, and
conveyed to first-aid stations on var-
ious fronts, where transfusion was
made. The donor and recipient must
belong to the same biological type, and
the blood must be germ-free. Russian
experiments proved that blood taken
from corpses was transfusable eight
hours after death.
BIOLOGIST MEETS
SUCCESS
Discoveries In Blood
Transfusion
EXPERIMENTS IN SPAIN
VALENCIA, June 13.
According to an American biologist,
Mr. Herman J. Muller, who has been
conducting research for the past two
months with the Hispano-Canadian In-
stitute into blood transfusion, bleeding
to death from wounds can be appreciably checked.
He declares that the vital elements can now be kept alive
in the blood outside the body and
coagulation prevented, enabling trans-
fusion within a fortnight.
Dr. Norman Bethune organised in
Madrid a service of blood donors, who
were fed, but not paid. The blood
was collected at base hospitals, and
conveyed to first-aid stations on var-
ious fronts, where transfusion was
made. The donor and recipient must
belong to the same biological type, and
the blood must be germ-free. Russian
experiments proved that blood taken
from corpses was transfusable eight
hours after death.
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