Observations on the transfusion of blood : with an account of two cases of uterine hemorrhage, in which that operation has been recently performed with success / by Charles Waller.

  • Waller, Charles, 1802-1862.
Date:
1825
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Credit: Observations on the transfusion of blood : with an account of two cases of uterine hemorrhage, in which that operation has been recently performed with success / by Charles Waller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    mentions it to ridicule it, and he has made the oper- ation one of great danger, by directing the arteries of both persons to be opened; Dr.Lo\ver*hashov?- ever gained the credit of being the first to propose the operation; his directions are these, ‘'Take up the carotid artery of the dog or other animal, whose blood is to be transfused into another of the same, or of a different kind ; separate it from the nerve of the eighth pair, and lay it bare for about an inch, make a strong ligature upon the upper part of the artery, and an inch nearer the heart another ligature with a running knot, to be loosened or fastened as occasion requires. Draw two threads between the two ligatures, open the artery, put in a quill and tye up the artery again upon the quill by the two threads, and stop the quill by a stick. Then make bare the jugular vein of the other animal for about one and a half inch in length, and at each end make a ligature with a running knot, and in the space between the two knots, draw under the vein two threads as in the other. Open the vein and put into it two quills, one into the descending part of the vein to receive the blood from the other dog, and carry it to the heart; the other quill put into the other part of the jugular vein towards the head, through which the second animal’s own blood is to run into dishes. The quills thus tied fast, stop them up with sticks till there be occasion to open them. Things thus * Ricbiirdi Lower Traclatus delCorde.