Source recordPrimary JW publicationunverified1940sBlood doctrine

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Consolation, “Surgery (as cited)”

25 December 1940p. 19Source ID src-con-1940-1225-surgeryAccessed 19 September 2026
Primary JW publication Unverified

Consolation, “Surgery (as cited)”

25 December 1940 · p.19 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“(not opened) — discovery sites say it praised a physician who gave a quart of his own blood for transfusion”

Used by critics to show transfusion was described approvingly before 1945.

Provenance and verification note for Consolation, Surgery (as cited)

Confidence note. The archive.org OCR volume does not contain the 25 Dec 1940 issue (no 'transfusion' hits, no Dec 1940 date strings). Only discovery sources (AJWRB, jwfacts) cite it.

Scan provenance. archive.org item '1938-1940 Consolation' uploaded by a private user; OCR checked — no December 1940 issue or 'transfusion' text present

Corroborated by. src-ajwrb-evolution-blood-policy, src-jwfacts-blood-transfusions

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-con-1940-1225-surgery