CHAPTER XVI
TRANSFUSION OF BLOOD
Among the latest discoveries of science is
hemolysis—the fact that inoculation of blood from the
veins of a higher animal into one of a lower species
destroys the blood of the lower animal and causes its
death. Thus the blood of man injected into the veins of
any animal is fatal. But from man to man it is found
that transfusion may take place, although at times there
are deleterious effects.
In olden days people married in the family; it was
then looked upon with horror if one should “seek after
strange flesh”. When the sons of God married the
daughters of men, that is to say, when the subjects of
one leader married outside the tribe, there was great
trouble, they were cast off by their leader and
destroyed, for at that time certain qualities that we now
possess were to be developed in humanity and were
thus implanted in the common blood which ran pure in
the family or small tribe. Later on when man was to be
brought down into material conditions, international
marriages were commanded, and, from that time on, it
has been looked upon as equally horrible if persons
within the same family united in marriage.
The old Vikings would not allow anyone to marry
into their family unless they had first gone through the