BERNHEIM, Bertram M.

Blood Transfusion Hemorrhage and the Anaemias

Philadelphia Lippincott 1917, xix, 259 p. 23 cm. 18 plates. Appendix. Index. Hardcover. Red cloth. Front hinge tender. Stain and wrinkle at bottom of front cover. Bernheim received his medical degree in 1905. After his postgraduate work in Europe, in 1908 he officaally began his career in surgical research, evincing a special interest in the surgery of blood vessels. In 1914 he became an instructor in clinical surgery at Johns Hopkins. Prior to the First World War (in which he served as an operating surgeon), he had been chiefly interested in blood transfusion work, and besides being occupied with his own practice and his work at the medical school, he was frequently called in on special cases necessitating blood transfusions. He later recounted his personal struggles in this work, as well as a history of the simplification of the procedure in Adventure in Blood Transfusion (1942). Bernheim himself was responsible for devising a new method of transfusion which was an improvement over the famous Lindeman or "needle" method. Bernhiem constructed a special metal tube "by which blood could be transferred rapidly and easily, and no skilled assistants whatsoever were required for the procedure. ' This method was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1915. More about Bernheim can be found in the PBS series Red Gold: the epic story of blood (www.pbs.org/wnet/redgold/index.html).

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