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A highly interesting and delicate sur gical operation was performed in this city by Dr. J. G. Orton, assisted by Dr. A. Comatock and E. N. Gillespy, upon Marcellus A. Hayes, aged twenty-eight years, who had been suffering from dis ease of the lungs during the past four years, and had become much emaciated and enfeebled. The operation known as the direct transfusion of blood from a healthy animal to the human subject having been agreed upon, Dr. Orton pre — an apparatus which, roam simple 2 its esters day — was for a purpose, securing safety to the pa tient, and facility in the elocation of the delicate operation. A healthy six months lamb, having been securely in closed in a sack, was upon a table by the side of the patient’s bed, and the carotid artery one for about two and a half inches and a ligature applied to this, arresting the blood current. About two inches below this a strong pair of forceps were appaed, which securely compressed the artery. A small sponge was then made in the section of the ves sel thus secured, and a smell glass tube of about one-eight of an inch bore, three inches long, slightly bent was inserted, and the artery one tied to it by a strong silk ligature.To the other end of the glass tube was attached some twelve inches of elastic tubing, to the other ex tremity of which was secured another glass tube, similar to the one just de scribed. The vein usually opened in vene section at the elbow was now exposed by dissec tion for about one inch, and a compres and bandage applied around the arm be low the incision. A smalla was made in the vein exposed, and a funnel shaped glass tube inserted into it and the vein secured to it by a ligature. This funnel-shaped tube thus array was filled with a weak solution of sods in water at the temperature of 08 degrees. In order to determine the amount of to be transfused, the blood from the lamb was allowed to flow through the tube into a graduated glass, four seconds being required to obtain an ounce of blood. Everything being now ready, the for ceps upon the lamb’s artery were relaxed, and after all air was removed from the tubes and the blood flowed briskly, the fore end of the glass tube was inserted into the one connected with the vein of the patient's arm, and immediately the tre blood of the lamb coursed free in the system of the sick man. By tim ing the flow it was estimated that eight ounces of blood were thus in ! The patient experienced at the termi nation of the operation a peculiar warmth over the whole body, and a sen sation of fullness; this was succeeded by a slight chill, and this was soon followed by a decided reaction, his pulse becoming full and slightly accelerated. Durin the remainder of the day and up to reports, the patient continued to feel very comfortable, and in encouraged to think that he will derive permanent from this novel operation to which he had voluntarily submitted himself in Binghamton Times.
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The Lake County Star
Baldwin, Michigan, US
Thu, Dec 24, 1874
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