TRANSFUSION

is the namo of the operation by which | matter is one of pre ing public import unce. Among blood was transferred from the arm of a healthy | tropical diseases we may mention more particularly ague, individual to that of a patient. This operation is now | beri-beri, cholera, dysentery, elephantiasis, Guinea-worm, hardly ever performed, for it has been found by experience | liver absce , sleeping sickne , and yellow fever. In form a that the injection of water at blood heat, containing a | tion respecting these diseases will be found under their teaspoonful of salt to the pint, acts just as well. The term | respective headings. is now used to indicate the latter operation. Transfusion is [s. 418]