Blood transfusion has been suggested as a valuable supportive therapeutic measure when used in conjunction with well directed surgical intervention in certain cases of general sepsis secondary to suppurative disease of the temporal bone. More recently, the intravenous injection of dye germicides was suggested because of good results obtained in certain cases. The idea of the combined use of blood transfusion and germicidal dye seems particularly practical, especially if all that is claimed for both methods is true and if the citrate method of blood transfusion is used. The results with this method so far are satisfactory but no more striking than the results with blood transfusion alone.
Blood transfusion is not a new therapeutic measure, although certain refinements in the method of usage have eliminated most of the danger inherent in its application. General sepsis as the result of aural suppuration was not recognized until long