British medical journal . of the profession of the Republic ofVruguay recently visited France they were received at theParis Faculty ot Medicine ou October 14th by ProfessorGaucher, president of the General Medical Association otFrance, who recalled tlie fact that on the initiative ofProfessor Jhirique Pouey of Montevideo the doctors otUruguay had sent to tiie French fiuid for the medicalvictims of the war a sum ot £1,360, coutriljutcd by 210doctors in a country of not more than one million inliabi-tants. Professor Pouoy himself had sent the whole of hissalary. C DIRECT TRAIS^SFUSIOiS^ OF BLOO
British medical journal . of the profession of the Republic ofVruguay recently visited France they were received at theParis Faculty ot Medicine ou October 14th by ProfessorGaucher, president of the General Medical Association otFrance, who recalled tlie fact that on the initiative ofProfessor Jhirique Pouey of Montevideo the doctors otUruguay had sent to tiie French fiuid for the medicalvictims of the war a sum ot £1,360, coutriljutcd by 210doctors in a country of not more than one million inliabi-tants. Professor Pouoy himself had sent the whole of hissalary. C DIRECT TRAIS^SFUSIOiS^ OF BLOOD. BY ALFRED J. HULL, , ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. Altiiodgh the advantages of direct transfusion are soapparent, this treatment does not appear to bo in suchfrequept use as it merits. Apart from its obvious indication in eases ot severe-haemorrhage, it would appear to be a valuable treatmentfor severe sepsis and shock. The provision of healthyblood to patients suffering from septicaemia must supply. Fig. 1 —Tbe pooitinn of the arms, Tlie donors left hand graspsthe patients left arm well above tbo elbow, briuginfj the don:>raradial artery almost into apposition with the patients medianbasilic vein. them with the bactericidal agents, bacteriolysins, anti-bodies, agglutinins, opsonins, leucocytes, and tryptiopower whicli they are deficient in. How far the alteration of the blood in cases of shookdetermines the result is at present uncertain, but the effectot healthy blood upon the tissues of such patients appearsto be worthy of consideration. Transfusion would appear to be a more scientific remedythan the empirical iujection of antiseptics into the bloodstream. The difficulty of obtaining some one willing to submitto an operation entailing ligature of an artery is in myopinion the only bar to a much greater use of thistreatment. The operation is very simple and can be performedwithout the use of special apparatus. In fact, I considerthe use of any appa
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