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Reddick [55C2], p. 22, discusses beneficial effects from the use of autohemotherapy having been reported in several diseases, over the previous three decades.

AUTOHEMO TECHNIC 55C2
"The initial treatment consisted of the removal of 5cc of blood from one of the median basilic veins under aseptic conditions, followed by immediate deep intramuscular reinjection into the upper outer quadrant of the buttock of the opposite side. A few drops of 4% sodium citrate solution were introduced through the needle into the syringe before the blood was withdrawn; the average length of time which the blood remained in the syringe was fifty-five seconds." [55C2] p. 23

AUTOHEMO: MENTAL ILLNESS RESULTS 55C2
Reddick [55C2] reported on 2 series of psychiatric trials, involving 25 patients each.
Of the first grouping of 25 [see 1950 above], "nineteen patients or 76% of those treated displayed a social recovery, inasmuch as they were able to leave the hospital and to resume their former activities. Of the 6 patients still requiring hospitalization at the conclusion of the treatment period [6 months], theree were much better; and one remained unchanged.
His second group of 25 was studied in conjunction with a control group of ten, and here 23 of the 25 displayed a social recovery (in contrast to none of the ten in the control group, who had been treated with saline in place of autoblood). Of the remaining 2 patients still hospitalized after 6 months, one has received only eleven treatments to date and had already been released on 4 trial visits, one lasting 10 days, to the custody of her daughter. A more permanent release was "anticipated in the near future." the final patient was a 63-year-old woman who had sustained a cerebro-vascular accident 8 years before, had been hospitalized in 7 private institutions prior to current public institutionalization, and had been diagnosed as 'chronic brain syndrome associated with cerebral arteriosclerosis, with psychotic reaction'. In addition she suffered from systemic syphilis.,
"Her condition is now improved and she is scheduled for staff presentation in the near future for the purpose of discussing the advisability of granting her a trial visit to the custody of her husband."
Reddick presents one case of a 34-year-old woman with "very poor prognosis because of the long duration of her illness", who despite 3 courses of electroshock therapy and other attempted therapy was "still deeply psychotic." After an initial 5cc dose and subsequent weekly 10cc injections over a period of 16 weeks, "her degree of improvement was so marked that she was described as displaying a complete social remission." However, it was noted that this patient had "exhibited a generalized cutaneous eruption of innumerable small pustular lesions" following each IM reinjection, most of which ruptured spontaneously within a day or so. [It is suggested that this may have been due to the use of the citric acid anti-coagulent, insofar as such reaction was not generally encountered in the literature.]

AUTOHEMOTHERAPY IS SPECIFIC 55C2
"No therapy can possibly be more specific than the resistance of the individual patient to his own disease processes..."

AUTOHEMO SAFETY 55C2
Reddick [55C2] credits autohemotherapy with the "advantage of being a safe and effective means of bringing into play the helpful portions of the body's defenses without exposing the patient to the possibility of unnecessary incidental damage. ... Autohemotherapy helps the sick person to heal himself."