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Paper, 'Accounts of experiments of transfusion made by Dr King at his house' by Edmond King

Reference number: CLP/12i/9

Date: 29 March 1667

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The first part of a paper recounting an easier and safer method to carry out blood transfusions between animals by using their veins rather than their arteries. King provides observations of a blood transfusion between a calf and a sheep, and observations of a dog that was injected with milk with dissolved sugar. The second part of the paper is found at CLP/12i/10.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as part of paper titled 'An account of an easier and safer way of transfusing blood out of one animal into another, viz. by the veins, without opening any artery of either'.

Read to the Royal Society on 4 April 1667.

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CLP/12i/9
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29 March 1667
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Edmond King

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Edmond King, Paper, 'Accounts of experiments of transfusion made by Dr King at his house' by Edmond King, 29 March 1667, CLP/12i/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12i_9/paper-accounts-of-experiments-of-transfusion-made-by-dr-king-at-his-house-by-edmond-king, accessed on 18 March 2025

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