Show TRAISFilSING BLOOD I Remarkable Operation of changing Chang-ing a Complexion A PHYSICIANS BOLD EXPERIMENT A White Man is Successively Changed into an Englishman a Negro and a Chinaman Did I ever tell you my dear Z J rV how shortly after taking the degree of doctor of medicine I lost several years of my life in one brief night the benevolent old panacea inquired of his comparatively youthful acquaintance in the Palmer house one evening No Well the event of which I speak took place in my office Yes the same I occupy at present Among my servants was one whom I supposed to be pure blooded Caucasian He was intelligent in face and polite in manner and the gentleman for whom he had formerly worked had recommended him to me in the highest terms and though he had taken occasion to dwell on several characteristics in detail ho had made mention not even giving a hint about the man having any mixed blood in his veins Nor would I have suspected it had Henry not come to me one day after office hours and told me himself He began be-gan after receiving my permission to use a short space of my time as he saw fit by asking me if I believed in the efficacy of the transfusion of bjood Upon my reply ing in the affirmative ho wanted to know if I thought a mans complexion might not be changed by transfusion of the blood of a different complexioned man The question was a startler I had never heard it before and I had never thought of such a thing Still it did not seem illogical I asked Henry what prompted his question He hesitated a moment hung his head and replied after pledging me to secrecy that he had African blood in his veins A very small quantity but still enough to enable an expert to detect de-tect just back of his finger nails the telltale mark He was it seemed engaged to a white girl She had not known of the impurity im-purity of his blood until he feeling it to be his duty had told her She immediately broke the engagement declaring that while she would marry none other she would not marry him When Henry had come to work for us as my office man he had taken to reading my medical works and had read enough about transfusion to obtain a pretty pret-ty fair idea of it And he had hit upon the thought that it might be employed to charge his veins with such pure Caucasian as to dilute the African blood into an undiscoverable un-discoverable quality TURNED INTO A NEGRO Before I could recover from my surprise Boswell ho asked if I would perform the operation of transfusion Being young impetuous and not overgiven to fully weighing consequences I consented He had counting on my acquiescence made a bargain with the brawny English janitor of the building for a limited quantity of the blood and it was not long before the operation was well under way By this time I had gained my senses and was enjoying en-joying the thing more as a joke than any thing serious until the Englishman let fall something about having a hereditary taint in his system In a jiffy the operation I stopped so far as he was concerned and I I began to busy myself with letting out of Henrys veins as much blood as it was safe I to spare in hopes of ridding them of all the Englishmans disease tainted fluid In my excitement I let out too much Henry fainted and terror stricken lest he should die I ordered the Englishman to fetch 4he first strong able bodied man he could persuade to part with some blood to save anothers life In a few moments lo was back with his negro assistant He was not the color I wanted but a life was at stake and in the shortest time on record I 1 had his blood flowing into the veins of Henry In a little while Henry revived He opened his eyes and upon seeing that the blood of a black negro was flowing into his veins he sprang up broke the tube and with an oath declared that I was trying to rob him of what white blood he possessed and to make him a negro tOvercome by the strong conflicting emotions emo-tions from the fear that I was an unintentional uninten-tional murderer to the joy of seeing Henry restored to consciousness I fainted When I came to myself the rOOm was dark I lit the gas and saw Henry lying on the floor asleep His face and hands were jet black He had become through my criminal crim-inal carelessness a negro What could I do Ho was much larger than I and if I awoke him he might upon discovering tho change that had chine over him do me violence My eye chanced to light upon a bottle of chloroform and in an instant I had saturated my handkerchief and laid it to his nose Satisfied that he would not awake inside a half hour I hurried to the street determined to find a white man who would consent to an operation i A TERRIBLE CRISIS i It was a bitterly cold night and a sharp sleet sweeping down State street drovo I most everybody indoors After tramping about in vain for nearly half an hour I hurried back to the office my fear of personal I per-sonal violence by this time having given way to one that Henry might in his despair kill himself As I entered the street door I spied a man crouching in tho corner I I bode hinLStand UEi and as he did so I rec ognized him as the Chinaman who did my laundry work He was a giant in size and had a complexion of rich olive I had prescribed pre-scribed for him several times and he thought a great deal of me and he had come imide the building it seems to thaw out a bit Well Boswell as you may imagine I soon roped him into service To be sure I wanted a white man but none was to be found and I knew that Henry would prefer pre-fer an olive complexion to a black skin and the Chinaman being willing to do anything any-thing I told him I took him to the office Henry was still asleep and placing the chloroform cap over his face I let out a pretty large quantity of the negro blood his skin becoming lighter all the while until it regained its normal hue I would hare left him so1 but as there was not enough blood in him to keep him alive I was compelled to tap the Chinaman and start the occidental blood flowing In less than half an hour sir Henrys complexion could not be distinguished from the Chinamans and as the latter I was beginning to show signs of weakness I stopped the flow gave him a stiff drink and sent him forth to find and bring to me the first large white man he came across for I was determined that having made the remarkable discovery of the great powers of blood transfusion Henry should have pumped into him enough Caucasian blood Ito I-to make him as white as I Did the Chinaman come back asked Boswell He did not the doctor replied Then in heavens namo what did you do I woke upChica Herald |