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From the Vault: I Want a New Blood

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Zeno Transfusion - A Strange History

In 18 54, milk was injected into the veins of patients with the asiatic cholera. Doctors thought that it would help regenerate white blood cells. The thing is, enough patients survived that they kept trying itti. They're like, welp, nobody's dying. It seems like they're eventually getting better. Let's just keep doing it. So anyway, that is the very weird story of early zeno transfusion in 16 sixties france. Now,Zeno transfusion is technically still on the table to day, but is generally not practised with humans to day because generally, human blood is much more forthcoming. But again, thinking of the idea of like

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