CURIOUS EFFECTS OF TRANSFUSION.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 257, 29 October 1874, Page 4

CURIOUS EFFECTS OF TRANSFUSION.

c_iAßf. ft£oß)atiou of blood is a medical experiment which should only be tried nader : the best advice, aod even then apmeJuipes produces distressing results. A man framed Simpson was, according to one of the American papers, the Other day nearly dead from consumption, when Dr Hopkins, who was attending hini.decided to try the effect of a transfusion of blood. As none of Simpson's friends or neighbors were willing to shed their blood for Simpson's Bake, Dr Hopkins had oo alternative but to use Simpson's goat for the purpose, aqd, accordingly, opening the patient's arm, injected about two quarts of the S:KP*M blood into the sufferer's system. Simpson began immediately to revive; but his revival was marked by the most disagreeable symptoms. No sooner had his strength returned than be jumped oot of bed; and twitching his h^ad about after the fashion of a goat, made a savage attempt to butt the doctor. Dr Hopkins, after Simpson's head had been plunged against bis stomach three or four times with tbe force of a battering ram, took refuge in an adjoining room, whereupon Simpson banged his head against the door with such violence that he would have soon Bmasbed the panels but tbat his attention' was diverted from the doctor by his mother-in-law, who at this moment entered tbe room. One well-directed btow from Simpson's head floored the f W. r Wy» aud then, as she lay screami|g for help,' Simpson frolicked round her, makiog efforts to nibble the green flowers whieh'forme- the pattern of the carpet. .. f At last he was securely tied < ?,°^.?»ft £<»* alarmed the whole neighbor'hobd by his frightful « 4 baW Distressed- by Simpson's condition aad the : reproaches of Mrs Simpson, Dr Hop kins determined to undo the evil, if possible, and by heavily bribing a : Irishman,. who was Simpson's servant, Pjjrrocnred fresh blood from the faithful .domestic and injected Simpson a second time. Simpson is now quite well, but shocks his own Republican friends by displaying an irresistible tendency to

vote on the Democratic ticket and speak with a strong brogue. He has only once butted since the last " transfusion." On going into church a few Sunday's ago one of the remaining corpuscles of the goat's blood got into his braio, and he butted the sexton half way up the aisle, recovering himself, however, in time to apologise just as the indignant sexton was about to floor him with a hymn book.