Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-03-30 | Page 1 | Gave His Blood to Save Wife's Life

GAVE HIS Hs BLOOD TO save SAV WIPES WIPE'S S 'S LIfE NEW YORK March harsh 30 With With the hopa of oC the saving Hf of oC 0 c. c b bin s wife wife Emilia Dr Louis Do De Lazo consul general general gen gen- eral of Honduras in New York gave of his blood submitting to tho rare operation operation opera opera- tion of transfusion ion but the desperate expedient failed and the who r ho was vms 29 years veara old died yesterday yesterday- in the French hospital Her husband is is seriously seri serf ill iII both hoth from the effects of the operation and tho the shock of his wife wife's I death Despite her ller youth routh Mrs r Do Lazo Law was tb the tho mother r of five 6 children and her health has hag not been heen robust for fora a lon long time Eventually she went to the tho French hospital but it was not lon long before her husband was ryas in informed that her Ler condition duo in a II Jar largo o measure to an au anemic state was critical Immediately Dr Do Lazo offered to I Ive give ve some of 11 his s own more moro health healthy supply sup- sup I pI ply pl- of blood and anel after some Borne consideration tion the physicians accepted The operation op op- oration was waa performed last Wednes Wednesday ay in m tho the presence of a dozen sur surgeons eons An artery in Dr L Lazos Lazo's arm was severed sev sov- ered and anda a liko incision was as made in tho arm of ot L his s wife Then both limbs limb were bound t tightly together in order that tbd the should take place Following the operation there was an apparent improvement in Mrs De Lazos Lazo's condition and it was thought tb that t tho experiment had proved successful successful suc sue but an unlooked unlocked for complication tion arose when pneumonia set Ret in and antl she Bhe gradually adu lJ sank until death eath came The fhe body will ill bo be taken to Guatemala for bur burial 1