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Paper, 'Account of an experiment, made by Mr Thomas Coxe of bleeding a mangy into a sound dogg' by [Thomas Coxe]

Reference number: CLP/12i/8

Date: 04 March 1667

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Coxe recounts an experiment to transfuse blood from a dog infected with mange into a healthy spaniel. The spaniel was unaffected and the infected dog was cured within a fortnight.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of another experiment of transfusion, viz. of bleeding a mangy into a sound dog'.

Read to the Royal Society on 4 April 1667.

Reference number
CLP/12i/8
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04 March 1667
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Coxe

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Thomas Coxe, Paper, 'Account of an experiment, made by Mr Thomas Coxe of bleeding a mangy into a sound dogg' by [Thomas Coxe], 04 March 1667, CLP/12i/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12i_8/paper-account-of-an-experiment-made-by-mr-thomas-coxe-of-bleeding-a-mangy-into-a-sound-dogg-by-thomas-coxe, accessed on 09 June 2026

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