To the practice of blood transfusions

Abstract

Blood transfusion, as a therapeutic method, has been known since ancient times. The tempting idea of restoring life and health to a dying body by pouring healthy blood into it from time to time prompted this remedy to be tested in practice. These attempts in most cases, for reasons understandable to us, ended unsuccessfully, and only since the first decade of the XX century, when the laws of agglutinative blood groups were discovered, the method began to acquire the value of a powerful therapeutic agent.

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