I remember many years ago in highschool that the teacher mentioned that blood transfusions between husband and wife were usually avoided. I always wondered about this in Taylor's case. Today I found something on the internet:
22.Why is it not advisable for a husband to donate blood for his wife during her childbearing years?
Generally speaking, husbands may donate blood for their wives provided that their red cells are compatible in the major ABO and Rh types (or "antigens"). There are many other antigens (weaker than ABO and Rh) that usually don't have to be matched because transfusion of blood containing one of these antigens to a patient lacking this antigen rarely causes production of antibodies (proteins that react with the antigens). When antibodies do develop they don't usually appear for several months. By this time the transfused red cells have disappeared and therefore they escape damage by the antibody. However, for a woman who plans to become pregnant in the future, receiving blood from her husband poses a small risk for the infants of these pregnancies. If, after transfusion the woman develops an antibody to an antigen on the father's red cells, and a subsequent fetus inherits the father's red cell antigen, the antibody from the mother may enter the bloodstream of the fetus causing destruction of the fetal red cells. This may cause serious anemia in the fetus and excessive jaundice in the infant after birth (which could cause brain damage). (These conditions are treated with special blood transfusions, using red cells that lack the particular offending antigen.) For women who are unable to make an autologous donation, the decision to select her husband as a donor should take this risk under consideration.
But I guess that Nova would have been the donor so it would have been OK. Now my question is if Nova's veins are opened up and hooked onto Taylor's veins, then there is no way for his blood to go back to her, since her blood is pumping out?
Here is a cool blood transfusion article regarding husband/wife in 1908!!
https://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9B0DEFDE123EE233A25752C2A9619C946997D6CF
I was wondering...with 1900-level technology, how could the apes provide so much water pressure for the waterhose that Julius uses?