Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Monsieur [Jean-Baptiste] Denis
Reference number: EL/O1/53
Date: 23 December 1667
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Details of the man who has had two blood transfusions; that the blood transfusion experiment had been recommended to hospital physicians; that blood transfusions might be able to cure dropsy, gout, scurvy, pox; questioning information from Danzig (Gdansk, Poland) of the man who was cured of pox and a woman of epilepsy by injecting their veins; wishes for details about the madman who had been given a blood transfusion
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- EL/O1/53
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- 23 December 1667
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- 2 pages
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Henry Oldenburg, Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Monsieur [Jean-Baptiste] Denis, 23 December 1667, EL/O1/53, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_o1_53/letter-from-henry-oldenburg-to-monsieur-jean-baptiste-denis, accessed on 08 December 2023
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