Robertson has used this method for complete replacement of the circulating blood in treating streptococcal septicæmia following erysipelas, and for shock in children due to burns. The infant’s blood is removed through the anterior fontanelle, while a fresh supply is injected into the saphenous vein. Complete replacement has not, so far as I know, ever been performed upon an adult, but the process is feasible, given a large enough assemblage of donors. In this way some vieillard might attempt the rejuvenation, which at present, as we are told, has only been obtained from the transplantation of “monkey glands” by Viennese professors.
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