Extract of a letter, 'A method of transfusing bloud into men' by Dr Edm [Edmond] King
Reference number: CLP/12i/12
Date: 1667
Description
Extract of a letter by King regarding an untried method of transfusing the blood from the artery of a lamb or kid into the vein of a human.
Subject: Medicine
Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'An account of more tryals of transfusion, accompanied with some considerations thereon, chiefly in reference to its circumspect practice on Man; together with a farther vindication of this invention from usurpers'.
Read to the Royal Society on 24 October 1667.
- Reference number
- CLP/12i/12
- Earliest possible date
- 1667
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 2 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Edmond King, Extract of a letter, 'A method of transfusing bloud into men' by Dr Edm [Edmond] King, 1667, CLP/12i/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12i_12/extract-of-a-letter-a-method-of-transfusing-bloud-into-men-by-dr-edm-edmond-king, accessed on 08 November 2025
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