Show TRANSFUSION OF BLOOD lizzie Cunningham Poisoned with Gas Is Restored Re-stored to Health after Many Months Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch I II NEW YORK May 8Lizzie Cunningham a young shop girl was found unconscious in bed at her home on the morning of January G Beside Be-side her lay her friend Mary Fallen a seamstress seam-stress dead An unlighted gas get was wide open and the room was full of gas Miss Cunningham Cun-ningham was taken in a comatose condition to the New York hospital She failed to rally i after receiving the usual treatment so on January Janu-ary 7 her physician decided to try transfusion of blood In two operations forty ounces of blood poisoned by the Inhaled gas had been drawn from her Amos A Lincoln a big health telegraph lineman Under treatment for muscular mus-cular affection of the arms volunteered to give the blood needed to fill her veins About twentyfive ounces were drawn from his right arm into a basin containing phosphate hif soda which was intended to keep the blood from coagulating A little rubber pipe terminating ter-minating In a glass tube was attached to the bottom of the vessel which was elevated a few feet above the girls body The glass end of the tube was Inserted in the radial artery in her wrist and Amos Lincolns blood was let into her veins Miss Cunningham remained unconscious uncon-scious until January U She then revived enough to speak a little but soon sank into unconsciousness from which she was revived during the next few days only occasionally and with great difficulty On the 13th she began to show symptoms of improvement although her body was totally paralyzed and her mind active and clouded Paralysis continued until February 1 when Miss Cunningham began sitting sit-ting up in bed and occasionally leaving it She continued to convalesce slowly and today was sent home with only a slight halt in her gait and a general stiffness of movements to tell of her narrow escape from death |