TRANSFUSION AS A CURE FOR MELENA NEONATORUM

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Abstract
The following case is the third one of its kind to be reported. The results of transfusion in this instance were as gratifying and as completely successful in bringing about a prompt and entire cessation of the hitherto uncontrollable hemorrhages of melena neonatorum as in the patients of Samuel W. Lambert1and of Swain, Jackson and Murphy.2 Until the present time all the therapeutic measures tried in the treatment of melena neonatorum have had one characteristic in common, that is, their futility. Whether we have drawn on our scanty physiologic knowledge of the factors influencing the clotting of the blood and have supplied calcium salts, various serums, etc., or whether we have acted on the theory that the disease is an inherited taint from the parents and have resorted to antiluetic drugs, or whether symptomatic treatment has been employed—saline infusions, styptics, lavage, rectal irrigation, etc.—the result has in the majority of

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