SURGICAL MARVELS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 670, 24 October 1933, Page 5

SURGICAL MARVELS

kidnfey tkansferred RUSSIAN DOCTOR PERFORftlS A REMARKABLE OPERATION BLOOD TRANSFUSION P erth, Saturday. Another medical marvel is reported by one o"f the doctors who returfted yesterday by the Jervis Bay." V He said, "an audacious surgical, operation by which the kidneys of a man who had just died, were transferreji to a woman dying of kidney tro.uble, is claimed by the Russian blood-v transfusion expert, Professor Vorony. By keeping the blood in a coolingr chamber, he is able always to hav.e supplies at hand for urgent tranfi fusions. . : The blood is grouped and tested for. impurities bef ore being stored. I£ can be kept for three weeks withoijt deterioration. • His claim is backed by tbe Chief Surgeon of the Ukrainian Institute for Blood Transfusion at Kharkov, who declares that Vorony has thus solved the greatest of all surgical , problems. "According to Professor Vorony# the operation was a complete success, and the woman is said to be out of danger. , "Vorony has made extensive exr periments dUring the last three years with the object of " attempting this miracle of surgery on humari beings: He claims to have perf ormed successfully several similar operations ohanimals." Professor Vorony has carried out . over 2000 sugcessful transfusions of Mood from dead to living persons.