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Paper, 'An account of the experiment of the transfusion of bloud out of one animal into another first performed by Dr Lower at Oxford' by [Edmond] King and Thomas Coxe

Reference number: CLP/12i/6

Date: 1666

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King and Coxe were appointed by the Royal Society to carry out [Richard] Lower's blood transfusion experiment using sheep, a bull dog, and a spaniel.

Subject: Medicine

Communicated by Mr [Edmond] King and Mr Thomas Coxe. Read to the Royal Society on 21 November 1666.

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CLP/12i/6
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1666
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Ink on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Edmond King

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Thomas Coxe

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Edmond King, Thomas Coxe, Paper, 'An account of the experiment of the transfusion of bloud out of one animal into another first performed by Dr Lower at Oxford' by [Edmond] King and Thomas Coxe, 1666, CLP/12i/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12i_6/paper-an-account-of-the-experiment-of-the-transfusion-of-bloud-out-of-one-animal-into-another-first-performed-by-dr-lower-at-oxford-by-edmond-king-and-thomas-coxe, accessed on 16 January 2025

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