XENOTRANSFUSION ; The Topic No One Talks About
You may have heard of xenotransplantation, but not of Xeno-Transfusion. Transgression or Salvation? The transfer of Animal blood into the veins of a Human.
This is a controversial topic, an interesting one with a dark background.
It was the summer of 2021. I along with my friend, we were walking in the street; it was midnight. We were talking about science fiction, and about Vampires. You see, I’m not a medical student. I don’t know a thing about this; a thought came to me, and I asked my friend that what if we transfer the blood of a bat into a human? I was superstitious, curious; my friend said no such thing had ever happened in history, and I was like, maybe not with bats, but with other animals? He said, Maybe*
I was curious, as I came home, I googled about this. And Boom, here it is. Xeno-Transfusions. And I was like woah, and then it began. I started to research about it, and yesterday the thought came to me, I should write about this here, on Medium. So, here I’m.
Let’s Dive In.
History
Jean-Baptiste Denys, the personal physician to King Louis XIV. The first person in the history to perform a human blood transfusion (Documented). The man of science who started this, later on, carried out by other great minds, if I say.
‘‘By the transfer of blood, I mean the actual passage of blood from a man or from another animal, into the veins of a weak or sick man’’
I got the above quote from an article, published back in 2007, the article on the past and the present of Xeno-Transfusions. Published by the Department of Cellular and Molecular ImmunoEndocrinology, INRA, Nantes School of Veterinary Medicine, Nantes Cedex, France.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6341745_Xenotransfusion_past_and_present
The more precise and accurate information is in the above article, you can download it from the link.
Paralysis disappearing almost immediately; patients recovering from Violent fever, all done by the miraculous attempts By Jean Baptiste. Many people died, not a simple but a horrible death too.
It was like taking turns, the history of Xeno-Transfusion. Getting ban in 1670, then rising up again in the 1800’s then going down again, then rising again until it was abandoned completely following the discovery of blood groups by Karl Landsteiner in 1900…
Now, you know a bit about what Xeno-Transfusion really is. What really caught my interest in this.
As you know, the first mammals were the lambs, but this thought came to me, that what if we transferred the blood of a bat into a human. I didn’t got the right answer to this until now. Later on I started to research about bats. I got to know that there is a species of bats, they live much longer as compared to their size, and if we as humans would have the same life span as them, then we’d be living more than 150 years normally.
Of course this was all bullshit; a part of me was like, what the hell are you thinking. If such an experiment were to be performed, it’s obvious, people would die of rabies, or other diseases carried by bats. But today, still a part of me is curious, and I want an answer, an explanation on this, but sadly I haven’t got it till now. I googled about this, and I tried to find an answer but I didn’t, so I thought I should share this here too. Maybe someone will be interested enough to find some answers but here we are.
I’m still learning like everybody else. I asked myself, why am I writing about this? So, my answer is this. The whole idea is to share about this, to let other people know that such things have existed in our history; to let curiosity play its game; we don’t know how wonders can happen.
Right now, I’m reading “Strange Blood: the rise and fall of lamb blood transfusion in 19th century medicine and beyond boel berner”
To understand this subject more deeply, the writer in this book has gone deeper, into the archives, to places where people like us can’t go, but the answers to your questions are in this book. Maybe, maybe not, who knows.
The book is free, available to download, google it.
As I said before, this was not the subject of my normal school studies, but it got my attention. I’m just gonna conclude this about Xeno-Transfusion,
“It got huge potential but now, I don’t see very much people knowing about this, I still got this vibe that somewhere out there in this world, maybe such experiments are still going on, and no wonder maybe, it’s been hidden, something miraculous been discovered, or maybe it’s just a dead subject now”
People in history, they simply got banished, disappeared. People who were into this, people like Oscar Hasse and many more. Branded as Charletons, fake researchers. Were they fake? Is it a lie in the end. We’ll never know.
I will write more about this topic later in the future; right now my knowledge is limited on this. I just want the readers to know about this, about such experiments done in this history, the people, the fall and everything.
So, I Guess That’s All!
“I Have No Talent, I’m Passionately Curious”
