Letter, from William Neile to Henry Oldenburg

Reference number: EL/N1/11

Date: 15 December 1667

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Concerning the movement of chyle in the body; that blood transfusions were being carried out at Oxford; concerning Hooke's experiment of circulating blood with an open tube; wishes for further research on diseases in beasts and about the nature of the spleen in the body

Postscript has Neile's thoughts about the blood, lymph glands; concerning Swammerdam's book on respiration

Reference number: EL/N1/11
Earliest possible date: 15 December 1667
Page extent: 4 pages
Format: Manuscript
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William Neile

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William Neile, Letter, from William Neile to Henry Oldenburg, 15 December 1667, EL/N1/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_n1_11/letter-from-william-neile-to-henry-oldenburg, accessed on 15 October 2024

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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
1613-1740 Reference number: EL
Letters from correspondents in natural philosophy to the Royal Society and its Fellows: 'Early Letters N1'
1663-1726 Reference number: EL/N1

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Henry Oldenburg
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