Experiments on the Transfusion of Blood by the Syringe

A FEW months ago I was requested to visit a woman who was sinking under uterine hemor- rhagy.The discharge had stopped before my ar- rival, but her fate was decided, and notwithstanding every exertion of the medical attendants, she died in the course of two hours.Reflecting afterwards on this melancholy scene, for there were circumstances which gave it a pecu.liar interest, I could not forbear considering, that the patient might very probably have been saved by transfusion; and that, although there was little * Register, Experiment 2t