Among the advances in medicine and surgery wrought in France during the war was the forcible demonstration of the great usefulness of blood transfusion; not only that, it was shown also that thus far nothing has been found to take the place of blood, once a hemorrhage has passed beyond the limits of safety.
This war development is of real significance for, despite efforts to popularize blood transfusion, despite all the brilliant advances of recent years made in this line of work and the reports of innumerable lives prolonged, and lives saved, by its use, there always existed in the profession generally an apathy toward it, a skepticism not only as to its efficacy, but also as to its need. How often have we been told that it is the rarest thing for a patient to bleed to death! The woman suffering from ruptured ectopic pregnancy never passes away from