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AUTOHEMO, WHY LOST 49H2
J. Robert Campbell in Mease, 1949 [49H2], "... I could not help comparing the beneficial effects of histamine in various diseases and in the treatment of various symptoms owht the results frequently derived in the case of autohemotherapy."

AUTOHEMIC THERAPY - TAKE TWO 49H2
A method of blood manipulation and reinjection termed "auto- hemic" therapy was proposed in 1949 by Mease [49H2, p. 23]. While this may have been derived from Rogers' method of the same name from the 20s [23E1], it is noted that Wright also used the term without reference to Rogers [31H1]. Of Mease's method, Dr. Robert J. Campbell [49H2, p. 24] noted "The results that Dr. Mease has obtained are interesting, but I do not believe that the shaking and incubation procedures are necessary to achieve such results, because many investigators have found that injection of fresh whole blood can be followed by similar beneficial results in selected patients.

AUTOHEMOTHERAPY; ACTION LIKENED TO HISTAMINE 49A2 Dr Campbell commented on having used autohemotherapy early in his practice, and how he had likened its effects to that of histamine. Dr. Campbell warned against dangers of the method proposed by Mease: "The incubation procedures used by Dr. Mease must enable some change to occur which makes the blood derivative more liable to produce sloughing than does fresh whole blood." It may be offered, as other writers have noted, that any alteration of the blood introduces some form of risk that is nonexistent in the case of use of whole blood.