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AUTOHEMO: PREDICTION OF LOWER MORTALITY WHEN POPULAR 38B2
Saxon [38B2] "In our opinion autohemotherapy should be used much more than it has been, and the therapy of several diseases with a high mortality will be favorably influenced when this simple method will become more popular, and the basis of its use and dosage will be more thoroughly understood."

AUTOHEMO TECHNIC 38B2
Saxon [38B2] "The procedure consists of withdrawing varying amounts of blood from the vein and either injecting the whole blood quickly before it coagulates, into the muscles, or allowing it to stand for several hours until the serum separates from the solid particles, and then only utilizing the blood-serum. Some men have also subjected the venous blood after its withdrawal to further treatment (for example, ultra-violet irradiation) and others have reinjected the blood serum again intravenously."

AUTOHEMO FOR PURPURA RHEUMATISM 38B2
Saxon [38B2, p. 191] notes that purpura rheumatica usually begins with an attack of pharyngitis or tonsillitis; and that Henoch's type has often been diagnosed as appendicitis or cholecystitis. Saxon also mentions Werlhoff's disease (hemorrhagic purpura) which involves a marked decrease in blood- platelets. Saxon reports on a grave case of purpura rheumatica that had "assumed all the earmarks of a septicemia", and was complicated by acute endocarditis. After two injections of autoblood, the disease appeared to have been cured.

AUTOHEMOTHERAPY AND VENESECTION 38B2
Saxon [38B2] "Where large amounts of blood are withdrawn, we are reminded of the time-honored method of 'bloodletting' or 'venesection' .... The effect of this method in the pneumonias is gaining new support; we know that by removing the venous engorgement in the circulation of the lungs, we can prevent the development of pulmonary edema; we relieve the work of the heart, which is under a considerable stress in pneumonia, and this may therefore be a lifesaving measure. The effect of venesection in chronic bronchitis is specifically mentioned by Osler, and several authors have advocated the use of bloodletting in desperate cases of eclampsia.

AUTOHEMO DOSAGE: LARGE IN INFECTIOUS CONDITIONS 38B2
Saxon, 38B2, p. 193 "In infectious conditions, as those of the respiratory organs, and in septic conditions, the dosage should be larger, and the intervals longer. ... Thus in pneumonia, where the method of Tillmann [IV reinfusion] was used, doses as high as 100cc repeated at an interval of 2 days, has been found very effective; for most other conditions 5-10cc [IM] are sufficient...."

AUTOHEMOTHERAPY THEORY: NOT PROTEIN SHOCK THERAPY 38B2
Saxon [38B2] "It has been contended that it [autohemotherapy] is a form of protein shock therapy, but according to F. Scheuer this idea must be discarded, as the blood, after being reinjected, is absorbed very rapidly within an hour - that is, much more quickly than with foreign proteins."