Skip to content

Please be aware that some material may contain words, descriptions or illustrations which will not reflect current scientific understanding and may be considered in today's context inaccurate, unethical, offensive or distressing.

The Royal Society: Science in the Making

Paper, ['The method observed in transfusing the bloud out of one live animal into another'] by [Richard Lower]

Reference number: CLP/12i/7

Date: 1666

Description

Lower provides details of how to carry out a blood transfusion from one dog to another with suggestions about how to prevent one from dying. The paper was extracted from a letter from Lower to Robert Boyle.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The method observed in transfusing the bloud out of one live animal into another: and how this experiment is like to be improved. Some considerations concerning the same'.

Read to the Royal Society on 26 September 1666.

Reference number
CLP/12i/7
Earliest possible date
1666
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Richard Lower

View page for Richard Lower

Use this record

IIIF manifest

View​ IIIF ​ manifest Opens in new tab

Open in Mirador viewer Opens in new tab

Export this record

Download PDF Opens in new tab

Citation

Richard Lower, Paper, ['The method observed in transfusing the bloud out of one live animal into another'] by [Richard Lower], 1666, CLP/12i/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12i_7/paper-the-method-observed-in-transfusing-the-bloud-out-of-one-live-animal-into-another-by-richard-lower, accessed on 20 January 2025

Link to this record

https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12i_7/paper-the-method-observed-in-transfusing-the-bloud-out-of-one-live-animal-into-another-by-richard-lower

Embed this record

<iframe src="https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/embed/items/clp_12i_7/paper-the-method-observed-in-transfusing-the-bloud-out-of-one-live-animal-into-another-by-richard-lower" title="Paper, ['The method observed in transfusing the bloud out of one live animal into another'] by [Richard Lower]" allow="fullscreen" frameborder="0" width="100%" height="500px"></iframe>

Related Publications

Related Records

Hierarchy

This item is part of:

Related Fellows

Explore the collection

  • Classified Papers

    Dates: 1592-1741

    The 'Classified Papers' of the Royal Society are papers from British and international natural philosophers and scholars categorised according to subject areas.

    View collection