Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1879 — Transfusion of Human Milk. [ARTICLE]

Transfusion of Human Milk.

The operation for the transfusion of human milk into the veins of a sick patient was done for the first time, it is said by the New York World, by Dr. Bowe, at the Charity Hospital in that city, a few days ago. The patient was a young woman of French descent. She had been suffering for a long time from two or three large dorsal abscesses, and all kinds of treatment failed to arrest the suppurative process that was slowly drinking up her blood. When a vein in her arm was opened the pulse was beating at 126 per minute, and shortly after the transfusion commenced the patient complained of an intense pain in one of her knees, which changed to her arm, her chest, and then back to her knee. A moment later she became quiet and stopped breathing for a moment, when respiration recommenced. Two ounces of milk had been injected, and the pulse had risen to 180, but it went down rapidly and the patient was soon breathing naturally. Dr. Howe said the patient would suffer no harm, but that he had seen enough to convince him that the transfusion of human milk should be abandoned as an unsuccessful experiment.

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