Show I New flew Surgical Knife Said To Prevent Loss of Blood EXETER ENGLAND Young hospital technician has said he has invented a surgical knife which im irn immediately immEdiately mediately puts back into the veins blood lost by a patient during an operation The inventor is W W. D. D G. G Greg Greg- Gregory Gregory ory a sick-bay sick attendant in the British navy during the war and now an room operating-room technician at Exeter city hospital His knife has h s not yet been used in the operating room He told reporters report rs it will prevent shock through loss of blood sometimes fatal during an operation The new knife has a grooved blade with a thin tube running through its hollow handle As Asan Asan Asan an incision is made a small elec elec- electric electric pump draws away the flow flowing ing blood passes it through a purifier and pumps it back into I Ia a vein through a needle similar to those for transfusions of blood I plasma I Gregory has registered his knife I with the British patent office and expects the patent to be granted grant d soon |