RT Journal
A1 Henry FP
T1 VAlue of transfusion.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD January 14
VO XXXII
IS 2
SP 89
OP 89
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450290039012
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450290039012
AB Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 2, 1899.To the Editor: 
    —In the course of an interesting editorial on the "Value of Transfusion," in the Journal, Dec. 31, 1898, the operation is suggested in typhoid fever and other toxic conditions, and the statement is made that there is no literature at hand: i.e., presumably, no record, of the measure having been resorted to in the treatment of typhoid.In Volkmann's Sammlung klinischer Vorträge (No. 11, 1890), Hermann Sahli gives an account of two cases of typhoid fever in which he injected, beneath the skin of the abdomen and elsewhere, as much as a liter of a saline solution. In a footnote in the course of my article on typhoid fever, in the "System of Practical Therapeutics," edited by Prof. H. A. Hare (vol. ii, p. 290), I briefly referred to Sahli's work and have also mentioned the fact that I have treated, at