New Blood For Old Saves Baby's Life
Received Saturday, 1 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 20. Five doctors at Chester City Hospital, saved the life of a baby, Margaret Jones, by replacing her "old" blood 'with new as soon as she was born. The rhesus factor involving a rare incompatibility in the parents' blood, threatened the baby's life. Two . of the parents.' first. three children Mad died shortly after birth and the third, now three years old, survived. As soon as Margaret was born, doctors removed ber blood and in jected into her veins a suppiy of rhesns-negative blood from an unknown donor. Twenty-five other doctors watched the transfusion which involved the use of a plastic catheter tube which is the latest American method of blood transfusion.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 February 1948, Page 5
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