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

Reference number: EL/O1/53
Earliest possible date: 23 December 1667
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript
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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 19 April 2025

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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
Early Letters O1 (Oldenburg)
1663-1669 Reference number: EL/O1

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