On which facts based the watchtower that moral insanity sexual perversions inferiority complexes petty crimes - these often follow in the wake of blood transfusions WT 9-15-61 p563-564?

Answer 1

** The facts regarding blood come primarily from The Bible.

The Watchtower September 15th 1961 also sites a number of other authorities (see below):

**An edition of the Pentateuch edited by J. H. Hertz(footnote): "Ibn Ezra suggests that the use of blood would have a demoralising effect upon the moral and physical nature, and pass on a hereditary taint to future generations."

Watchtower 15/9/61 p564 says

**'For example, in his book Who Is Your Doctor and Why? Doctor Alonzo Jay Shadman says: "The blood in any person is in reality the person himself. It contains all the peculiarities of the individual from whence it comes. This includes hereditary taints, disease susceptibilities, poisons due to personal living, eating and drinking habits. . . . The poisons that produce the impulse to commit suicide, murder, or steal are in the blood."

**And Dr. Américo Valério, Brazilian doctor and surgeonfor over forty years, agrees. "Moral insanity, sexual perversions, repression, inferiority complexes, petty crimes-these often follow in the wake of blood transfusion," he says. Yet it is acknowledged in the public press that organizations whose blood supply is considered reliable obtain blood for transfusion from criminals who are known to have such characteristics. Certainly no one who is trying to depart from the works of the flesh and use his life in the way that God directs through his Word is going to lay himself open to such a ruinous future.'

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