“A syringe, previously heated, was filled with blood drawn from the jugular vein of a goat.”

Medicine wasn’t quite as advanced 160 years ago as it is today, so sometimes doctors would just inject goat blood into a sick person to see if that voodoo would work. One such example can be gleaned from the following article published in the February 1, 1843 edition of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

“A man 38 years of age, says a late member of the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal was seized with haemhptysis, which continued so long, and so violent, that the only means of saving his life appeared to be by supplying the loss of blood by transfusion. On the fifth day after the attack a cannula was introduced into the median vein of his left arm; a syringe, previously heated, was filled with blood drawn from the jugular vein of a goat and about five ounces were injected into the vein of the man. Immediately he complained of a feeling of oppression; but this soon afterwards went off. An attack of phlebitis came on the next day, but was subdued in eight days by means of cold applications alone. His strength from this day returned, and at the end of three months he was able to resume his usual occupation. It is remarked, as the interesting point of this case, that it proves that the injection of the blood of one animal into the veins of another is not necessarily fatal.”