Transfusion Of Blood

Dr. Higginson, consulting surgeon to the Liverpool southern hospital, has niade areport on ono of the newest yet one of the most important branches of tho surgical art. The cases in whieh tho lives of tho patients are imperiled by the loss of blood are infinito in numbcr and variety, and tho proportion of the cases in which the patiënt, even when hemorrhage has been stopped, has been unable to take or assimilate food in time to replace the life fluid, and has died frora pure exhaustion, is lamen tably largo. The plan of supplying fresh, warm, life-endowed blood from tho vein of some healthy person to the drained and oxhausted systein of the patiënt seems to be one of the readiest and most legitímate of remedies. Dr. Higginson reports 15 cases which have been treated by hiinself, and in whieh tho proportion attendod with success is flatteringiy large : and indeed, in cases where tho operation was performed in time and where no complications existed, - that is, where the dauger tbreatening tiróse from simple hemorrhage - the xesult was invariably the savingof life. A largo proportion of the cases treated were those of flooding at childbirth ; but we conceive that tho system would admit of wiHu ppliout.ion in cases of exhaustion from aiuputation and othor operations often attended or proceded by sorious loss of blood. The difliculty, no doubt, is to procure those who are willing and courageous enough to lose ten or twelve ounces of blood; but thcre are surely few persons so destituto of friends as not to find one willing to undergo snch an ordeal in a ase of lile aud death. Dr. Higginson appends to his report a diagram of the instrument he uses. It appoars to be simple and iuoxpensive, and certainly no Burgeon - especially when he has a large obstotries praoticti - should be without that or similar meaiis of employing transfusión in cast's of imminent danger from