The great-granddaughter of the recipient of one of the first successful blood transfusions carried out in Scotland has urged others to donate to the life-saving blood donation service.
Mairi Philp from Comrie made the appeal after giving her 91st unit of blood last week.
Her great-grandfather James Philp was critically injured in a quarry explosion but survived thanks to the expertise of medics and the availability of the new procedure in 1886.
He lost his forearm and his leg. His life was saved by Thomas Annandale, who later became a professor, and Dr J M Cotterill, who would go on to receive a knighthood.
Mairi said: “We need as many folk as possible to donate blood. I do this to thank and honour the surgeons who saved my great-grandfather’s life way back in January 1886.
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