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Random Reminiscences of Men and Events

CHAPTER VI
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In view of its condition he raised the question whether it was worth while to proceed further with the attempt.

The father, however, insisted upon going on, and the surgeon then exposed the radial artery in the surgeon's wrist, and was obliged to dissect it back about six inches, in order to pull it out far enough to make the connection with the child's vein.
"This part of the work the surgeon who did it afterward described as the 'blacksmith part of the job.' He said that the child's vein was about the size of a match and the consistency of wet cigarette paper, and it seemed utterly impossible for anyone to successfully unite these two vessels.

Dr.Carrel, however, accomplished this feat.

And then occurred what the doctors who were present described as one of the most dramatic incidents in the history of surgery.
The blood from the father's artery was released, and began to flow into the child's body, amounting to about a pint.

The first sign of life was a little pink tinge at the top of one of the ears, then the lips, which had become perfectly blue, began to change to red, and then suddenly, as though the child had been taken from a hot mustard bath, a pink glow broke out all over its body, and it began to cry lustily.


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