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  • Yo-Yo Ma continues to play, and it's like the piano and cello are being poured into my body, the same way that the IV and blood transfusions are.†   (source)
  • More nuns arrived, rustling, ancient, speaking German to each other. they carried transfusion equipment, wheeled in trays of glinting implements.†   (source)
  • You can't even get a blood transfusion if you're poor.'†   (source)
  • One sister might have died had not Woody provided blood by direct transfusion.†   (source)
  • And while it might keep him and Sloan on their feet, transfusions of energy were far from satisfying, as they did nothing to fill one's stomach.†   (source)
  • He needed a blood transfusion.†   (source)
  • Goudsmit thinks that this was an early HIV epidemic, and that somehow the virus got into the hospital, and was spread from child to child by the then, apparently common, practice of using the same needles over and over again for blood transfusions or injections of antibiotics.†   (source)
  • From then on Dr. Numata gave Sadako blood transfusions or shots almost every day.†   (source)
  • Could you use that blood for the transfusion?†   (source)
  • He gave me blood transfusions as I went in and out of consciousness.†   (source)
  • Consider it a transfusion.†   (source)
  • Packed–red cell transfusions.†   (source)
  • These blood transfusions are my oil changes.†   (source)
  • The words washed over him, reaching into the deepest marrow of his bones, caressing each hidden synapse, flowing through every vein, as though he had been given a transfusion.†   (source)
  • Maria del Refugio Gonzalez worked in the transfusion area and was speaking to the on-duty head nurse about a particular man who had come in to donate blood.†   (source)
  • We had to give you a transfusion.†   (source)
  • After that, as his assistants supervised the anesthetic, air supply and a long-overdue blood transfusion, Logan got to work with needle and thread.†   (source)
  • But I think we have a little time before you have to worry about a transfusion.†   (source)
  • Blood is being transfused into his body.†   (source)
  • He knew that the tight pressure of his arms was the only answer which the boy was now able to hear and understand-and he held the trembling body as if the strength of his arms could transfuse some part of his living power into the arteries beating ever fainter against him.†   (source)
  • But I don't require him, he's no transfusion.†   (source)
  • I've never had a blood transfusion; I've never used a dirty needle.†   (source)
  • I know such things; had taken luck and big transfusions to save me—and an arm isn't in same class with what happened to Shorty.†   (source)
  • I don't have the drugs or antibiotics or blood transfusions for him.†   (source)
  • I dream a strange confounded dream in which intimations of bliss are transfused with lacerating pain.†   (source)
  • When my father was dying in the hospital, there was a desperate last decision to try a blood transfusion.†   (source)
  • His body fought its battles quite apart from his mind; the transfusions, the injections, the X rays and the merciful surgery were performed on flesh and blood and bone temporarily cut off from the normal processes of awareness.†   (source)
  • And the Red Cross had announced plans to establish a transfusion post at Zanmi Lasante.†   (source)
  • My business is blood transfusion-and I'm still doing it.†   (source)
  • WHO provides reagents for blood transfusions.†   (source)
  • You can do a blood transfusion or something, right?†   (source)
  • It can be treated with monthly transfusions.†   (source)
  • I told her that I was already undergoing packed–red cell transfusions twice a week.†   (source)
  • Medved would like a word with you before we start," said Sara, my transfusion nurse.†   (source)
  • "I see we've undergone four packed—red cell transfusions so far…."†   (source)
  • I had my fourth transfusion scheduled at Moffett, the hematology unit, at five-thirty.†   (source)
  • He crawled out and said, "He's in shock and shouldn't be moved and ought to have a transfusion.†   (source)
  • A lot of them look like they need a blood transfusion ….†   (source)
  • He wondered whether it would be possible to rig up a saline solution transfusion.†   (source)
  • The doctors decided to give me blood transfusions as well because I was not replacing my own blood as quickly as they would have liked.†   (source)
  • The sisters moved between the beds swiftly, giving injections—probably morphine—or administering the transfusion needles to connect the injured to the vacolitres of whole blood and the yellow flasks of plasma that hung like exotic fruits from the tall mobile stands.†   (source)
  • He has a feeling they're going to offer you a deal—after all, you did help them catch that group who gave you the transfusion to begin with.†   (source)
  • After Henrietta checked into the hospital, a nurse drew blood and labeled the vial COLORED, then stored it in case Henrietta needed transfusions later.†   (source)
  • She got one blood transfusion after another because her kidneys could no longer filter the toxins from her blood, leaving her nauseated from the poison of her own body.†   (source)
  • Because Cuba had acted quickly to clean up its blood supply, only 10 people had contracted HIV from transfusions.†   (source)
  • They used hybrids to create the first monoclonal antibodies, special proteins later used to create cancer therapies like Herceptin, and to identify the blood groups that increased the safety of transfusions.†   (source)
  • She went into a coma, and you know—I didn't know the details then, I do now because it's my specialty—she needed a transfusion, and her sister was there.†   (source)
  • Almost none in either group had been exposed to risks often mentioned in expert commentary—intramuscular injections, blood transfusions, intravenous drug use.†   (source)
  • Nearly twenty years since Farmer had watched a woman die in Léogâne for lack of a transfusion, and he finally had a blood bank that could serve the central plateau, a source of blood that patients wouldn't have to pay for.†   (source)
  • I got transfused with your DNA.†   (source)
  • While giving me a transfusion …†   (source)
  • Eventually Dr. Isaacson gave her three transfusions of whole blood to replace what she lost in nosebleeds.†   (source)
  • But Appleby had his hands on the prison health records and they showed what we had not known before: Genet was also a silent carrier of hepatitis B. She contracted it (or so the prison doctor postulated) from an improperly sterilized needle or a transfusion or a tattoo when she was in the field in Eritrea; she could also have acquired it sexually.†   (source)
  • He explained that the infant was normal to all tests and that Jackson had a bleeding ulcer, for which he was receiving transfusions.†   (source)
  • …to provide them with the means of their plan-so throughout the world and throughout men's history, in every version and form, from the extortions of loafing relatives to the atrocities of collectivized countries, it is the good, the able, the men of reason, who act as their own destroyers, who transfuse to evil the blood of their virtue and let evil transmit to them the poison of destruction, thus gaining for evil the power of survival, and for their own values-the impotence of death.†   (source)
  • The hematocrit, for example? was rising because Jackson was receiving transfusions of whole blood and packed red cells.†   (source)
  • The problem with a transfusion is that the new blood would mix with your blood and dilute its effectiveness.†   (source)
  • Then Dr. Pipi said that Prudence was probably anemic and would need a blood transfusion to get her through a C-section.†   (source)
  • Dr. Musoke abandoned his efforts to give his patient a blood transfusion for fear that the patient would bleed to death out of the small hole in his arm.†   (source)
  • Baron dragged and carried McCormick to a nearby hut, sat him up on a cot, and gave him a large transfusion of blood serum from Africans who had survived Ebola.†   (source)
  • In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromiser is the transmitting rubber tube.†   (source)
  • His motive in the relationship seemed to resemble the need of an anemic person who receives a kind of living transfusion from the mere sight of a savagely overabundant vitality.†   (source)
  • He had acted as if he were confidently in control, as if his confidence were a transfusion to let her recapture hers, he had given her no time to wonder that they should be here together.†   (source)
  • My hair was pulled up, I was in an old Berkeley T-shirt that I sometimes slept in, and I felt drained and anxious from my transfusion.†   (source)
  • THE NEXT MORNING, I arrived at the office straight from an eight o'clock transfusion, feeling light-headed, slightly woozy.†   (source)
  • Up to thirty percent of patients respond to a regimen of biweekly transfusions of packed red blood cells.†   (source)
  • I underwent my second transfusion.†   (source)
  • "Like I told you," the doctor said, "we don't have the facilities for giving transfusions, and he's been moved plenty without you taking him to Memphis."†   (source)
  • We give them transfusion of young blood.†   (source)
  • So far I had managed to keep humanly alive through transfusions from books.†   (source)
  • Gonadal hormones, transfusion of young blood, magnesium salts …†   (source)
  • They gave victims liver extract, blood transfusions, and vitamins, especially B. The shortage of supplies and instruments hampered them.†   (source)
  • Call it a blood transfusion.†   (source)
  • For instance, the nurse kept on taking blood-pressure readings and now and then she would mess with the transfusion apparatus—for they were giving the patient a transfusion all the time out of a bottle rigged up on a stand with the tube coming down.†   (source)
  • Padilla had given Mimi blood, and he was lying down after the transfusion in the room where I had left him, sucking an orange; his skimpy arm with its one curious ball of muscle taped, and his eyes, below surface indifference, black and active toward what I couldn't readily see.†   (source)
  • For weeks on end we were reduced to starting the same letter over and over again recopying the same scraps of news and the same personal appeals, with the result that after a certain time the living words, into which we had as it were transfused our hearts' blood, were drained of any meaning.†   (source)
  • Among his many other complaints, he had syphilis, which he had apparently caught from transfusions in one of his hospital stays; it was cured eventually.†   (source)
  • Despite the fact that the message from the Kobe doctor deprived him of transfusions, which would have been the most useful therapy of all, his fever and his digestive troubles cleared up fairly quickly.†   (source)
  • Father Cieslik and the rector took him as far as Kobe and a Jesuit from that city took him the rest of the way, with a message from a Kobe doctor to the Mother Superior of the International Hospital: 'Think twice before you give this man blood transfusions, because with atomic— bomb patients we aren't at all sure that if you stick needles in them, they'll stop bleeding.†   (source)
  • The memory of his work on the transfusion of blood recurred to me.†   (source)
  • As he spoke, he was dipping into his bag, and producing the instruments of transfusion.†   (source)
  • A similar operation is the transfusion of blood,—with which subject, indeed, I began.†   (source)
  • Said he not that the transfusion of his blood to her veins had made her truly his bride?†   (source)
  • There must be a transfusion of blood at once.†   (source)
  • When it was all over, we were standing beside Arthur, who, poor fellow, was speaking of his part in the operation where his blood had been transfused to his Lucy's veins.†   (source)
  • He had published some very astonishing facts in connection with the transfusion of blood, and in addition was known to be doing valuable work on morbid growths.†   (source)
  • We must have another transfusion of blood, and that soon, or that poor girl's life won't be worth an hour's purchase.†   (source)
  • The Dutchman, and a fine old fellow he is, I can see that, said that time you two came into the room, that you must have another transfusion of blood, and that both you and he were exhausted.†   (source)
  • My friend John and I have consulted, and we are about to perform what we call transfusion of blood, to transfer from full veins of one to the empty veins which pine for him.†   (source)
  • As the transfusion went on, something like life seemed to come back to poor Lucy's cheeks, and through Arthur's growing pallor the joy of his face seemed absolutely to shine.†   (source)
  • Without a word he went and locked the door, and then began to set out on the little table the instruments for yet another operation of transfusion of blood.†   (source)
  • The whole bed would have been drenched to a scarlet with the blood which the girl must have lost to leave such a pallor as she had before the transfusion.†   (source)
  • All Dorothea's passion was transfused through a mind struggling towards an ideal life; the radiance of her transfigured girlhood fell on the first object that came within its level.†   (source)
  • One immediately perceived three long parallel streets, unbroken, undisturbed, traversing, almost in a straight line, all three cities, from one end to the other; from North to South, perpendicularly, to the Seine, which bound them together, mingled them, infused them in each other, poured and transfused the people incessantly, from one to the other, and made one out of the three.†   (source)
  • The social condition of the Americans naturally accustoms them not to take offence in small matters; and, on the other hand, the democratic freedom which they enjoy transfuses this same mildness of temper into the character of the nation.†   (source)
  • Every citizen of the United States transfuses his attachment to his little republic in the common store of American patriotism.†   (source)
  • The Americans, on the other hand, transfuse the habits of public life into their manners in private; and in their country the jury is introduced into the games of schoolboys, and parliamentary forms are observed in the order of a feast.†   (source)
  • But no sooner is the priesthood entirely separated from the government, as is the case in the United States, than is found that no class of men are more naturally disposed than the Catholics to transfuse the doctrine of the equality of conditions into the political world.†   (source)
  • Thee next they sang of all creation first, Begotten Son, Divine Similitude, In whose conspicuous countenance, without cloud Made visible, the Almighty Father shines, Whom else no creature can behold; on thee Impressed the effulgence of his glory abides, Transfused on thee his ample Spirit rests.†   (source)
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