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Needham discusses bloodletting, blood circulation, and how blood provides nourishment to the body.

Subject: Physiology / Medicine

Reference number
CLP/14i/28
Earliest possible date
25 November 1675
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
8 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

Walter Needham

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Walter Needham, Paper, 'De sero sanguinis' by Dr W [Walter] Needham, 25 November 1675, CLP/14i/28, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_14i_28/paper-de-sero-sanguinis-by-dr-w-walter-needham, accessed on 12 September 2024

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