FIRST ATTEMPTS
In 1881 a physician named William Halsted successfully
carried out a blood transfusion injecting his blood in his sister Minnie who
was dying for a hemorrhage after giving birth to her child. This was one of the
few successful cases, in
which that was possible, because they had the same blood type (which is not guaranteed
even among close relatives). One of the first experiments was made in 1667 by
Jean Baptiste Denys, who
tested this practice on a man called Antoine Mauroy using the blood of a sheep to
treat his psychosis. At the first try everything
seemed good, but after the second one he started to run a
fever, had a pain in his lower back and a sting in his arm, then he urinated a
thick black liquid.
