Show SAVING LIVES OF SOLDIE SOLDIER Suggestion That Women Make Sacrifices Sao Sac c- c Contributing Blood Blood- i inCases in- in by Cases of Emergency 4 make mak The suggestion that women the heroic sacrifice of contributing to to- blood to be used ed in transfusions of wounded soldiers has has' aI save the lives been made mude by Capt William Wiiliam B. B Orear examining medical o officer III eel attached GaThis GaThis GaThis Ga station at Savannah to the army lathe Is la This stated Captain Orear the most practical sacrifice that the the- women of ot the country can enn make at atthe atthe atthe the present time time- In the emergencies of military surgery the direct transfusion transfusion trans trans- fusion fusio of blood often otten acts as a Il lifesaving lifesaving life life- saving proc procedure dure even In desperate cases apparently doomed to death dead from Largely on ac account account ac- ac count of ot certain difficulties In the tho practical application of the method it has bos 1 not been generally adopted although al al- although though operating surgeons are agreed as to Its value dad and etl efficiency clency The Inestimable advantage of ot the the- transfusion of ot human blood Mood in the cases jases oses of profuse hemorrhage which are unfortunately so common In tha the experience of all war surgeons has recently again been emphasized by Primrose and Ryerson in England The three great virtues which this method combines are briefly Increased increased In in- in creased of the patients patient's blood Improved local resistance of ot his hL j tissues to infection probable survival and continued function of ot the transfused trans trans- fused properly selected corpuscles Transfusion of ot blood from a tested donor during or or directly after an abdominal abdominal ab ab- operation for bullet wound acts not only as an auxiliary to the surgeons surgeon's efforts but may turn th the tho scale In favor of ot the patients patient's life lite |