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Show Soviet Scientists Transfuse Animal Blood Into Human Patients MOSCOW,' U. S. S. R. Experiments Ex-periments in transfusion of blood from goats, bulls and hens into human patients are being carried on by a number of Soviet scientists. The obj'ect of these transfusions is not to replace re-place blood lost In accident or disease, dis-ease, as In the" case of transfusions of human blood, but to stimulate the body to greater activity In fighting off disease. Stomach ulcer,, certain forms of rheumatism, various forms of blood poisoning and chronic anemia are among the conditions which, It is claimed, may he helped by animal blood transfusion by the method of these Soviet scientists. The blood from the animals Is specially treated In order to make it safe for Injection into the human hu-man patient's vein. In the case of the bull's blood, only the red cells are used, on the theory that the albumen of the blood plasma, rather than the red cells, is the part of the animal blood that would prove most incompatible with human blood and therefore most Injurious. This is the explanation given by Professor Galpern of the Dniepro-petrovsk Dniepro-petrovsk Medical Institute, who Is said to have been the first to make experimental transfusions of large doses of animal blood to men. Further Details Follow. Doctor ioydassarov explained the method In non-technical terms as follows: I "The Idea of transfusion of animal ani-mal blood to men In order to raise the activity of the organism In Its struggle against the disease and to stimulate the Increase of production produc-tion of blood by the organism, belongs be-longs to the French scientists Crochet, Cro-chet, Cassimnn and Kagot, who advanced ad-vanced this Idea In 192S. However, Howev-er, tlds method of treatment found practically no development In the medical practice of F.urnpe, while extensive research and practical work has been conducted In this field during recent years In the USSR. "A year and a half ago, tiie Central Cen-tral Institute of Hnemathnlogy and Blood Transfusion In Moscow used for the first time goat's blood for transfusion In cases of ulcer of the stomach, chronic and semi-acute semi-acute forms of rheumatism of the Joints, vnrious forms of seps chronic aDaemia, etc." |