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There is little doubt that both the transfusion of blood, and engrafting or transplanting of teeth, are capable, with judgment and discrimination, of being made subservient in a variety of cases; though the chances of general success militate against these experiments; for it is the unalterable plan of nature to proceed gradually in her operations; all outrage and extravagance being at variance with her established laws.
The ideas thus gained have been assimilated and become the listener's own property. There is thus generated a steady transfusion, the surest remedy against flagging mental activity.
One of the eyes tried to wink pitifully, obscenely. "You bet your life. Don't want to die just yet." "Nobody does." They drew a little apart. Rogers consulted with his colleague. The serious loss of blood must be made good. A transfusion. There was a young man who had offered himself. A suitable subject. This afternoon at the latest. They moved on. Robert spoke to the man next him.
It affects the prevalent or effective human nature in a conservative direction, by direct transmission of archaic traits, through inheritance within the class and wherever the leisure-class blood is transfused outside the class, and by conserving and fortifying the traditions of the archaic regime, and so making the chances of survival of barbarian traits greater also outside the range of transfusion of leisure-class blood.
It is the transfusion of brain! Some other man's head got on to my shoulders, and my brain is all wrong. Now with your red blood charged in my veins, and your young active brain absorbed into my own uncertain head, I shall find the elixir of life, and you will not have lived in vain." Gracious Heaven! Did she hear aright?
Somehow, a better understanding between man and Lhari will come from this." Secure in the knowledge, he turned over and went peacefully to sleep. When he woke again, he felt better. The Mentorian girl, Meta, was sitting quietly between the bunks, watching him. He started to turn over, flinched at the pain in his arm. "Yes," she said, "we're giving you one last transfusion. Plasma, this time.
1 The silly interpretation of this afforded by later writers, that this physician attempted transfusion of blood silly, because unthinkable in an age which knew nothing of the circulation of the blood has already been exploded. Innocent VIII breathed his last on July 25, 1492.
So, on all sides there are groans, gnawing of lips, clenching of fists, many hollow words, great ignorance, a deal of talk, a lot of fear. The patient is near his finish! Yes, transfusion of blood, transfusion of blood! New life, new vitality!
I have another revelation to make." He laid down on the table under the lights, which now flashed up again, the little hollow silver cylinder, "This little instrument," Kennedy explained, "which I have here is known as a canula, a little canal, for leading off blood from the veins of one person to another in other words, blood transfusion.
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