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Show DEATH OF YOUNG MAN INTERESTS DOCTORS Slight Laceration of the Ekin Causes Slow but Fatal Loss of Blood. Members of the medical profession of Salt Lake are greatly interested in a case at a local hospital where a young man died as the result of a very slight, injury. The young man accidentally , suffered a slight laceration of the skin and in four days bled to death. The injury was very slight and the boy received medical attention from the lirst. The physician in charge of the easo used too usual methods of stopping stop-ping the flow of blood, but it failed to stop. Then he tried more drastic methods, cauterizing' the injury. The blood, however, continued to ooze from the wound and every method known to a number of surgeons who weie called in consultation on the case used in an effort to coagulate the blood proved a failure. An analysis of the blood showed that the blood was lacking in a sufficiency of lime salts to form blood clots. An effort to remedy this deiiciency by an injection of hlood serum was used but this also failed, and the young man slowly bled to death, dying on Mon-dav. Mon-dav. The death is believed by physicians to have been due to predisposition to bleeding which the young man had in-! in-! beritcd. Local physicians declare that j such wises are extremely rare. Some-I Some-I times such eases are found in infants, but in adults tho eases are bo rare as to be regarded as remarkable. A recent discovery that a blood serum se-rum will remedy the deficiency of limo in the blood has saved the lives in several such cases, but even this remedy failed on this occasion. i |