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Letter, from Jean Baptiste Denis to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Paris

Reference number: EL/D1/8

Date: 22 March 1667

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Denis sends a letter of introduction for a young German man (possibly Matthias Paisen) and a letter about the origins of transfusion. He also asks whether diseases can be transferred between human and animal and gives details of a case about a child who had smallpox, suckled a goat, and then passed on the disease to the goat

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EL/D1/8
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22 March 1667
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1 page
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Jean-Baptiste Denis

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Jean-Baptiste Denis, Letter, from Jean Baptiste Denis to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Paris, 22 March 1667, EL/D1/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_d1_8/letter-from-jean-baptiste-denis-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-paris, accessed on 14 December 2024

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