My friend John and I have consulted; and we are about to perform what we call a transfusion of blood – to transfer from full veins of one to the empty veins which pine for him.
– Bram Stoker
Dracula, Chapter 10. Dr. Abraham Van Helsing to Arthur. Some medical practices that are commonplace today were very modern at the time Dracula was first published. Blood transfusions were a relatively new procedure in 1897.