'A Description Of the Method of transfusing the Bloud [blood] of one Animal into another, contriv'd and used by Dr Lower of Oxford'
Reference number: RBO/3/42
Date: 1666
Description
Lower provides details of how to carry out a blood transfusion from one dog to another with suggestions about how to prevent one from dying. The paper was extracted from a letter from Lower to Robert Boyle.
Subject: Medicine
Published in Philosophical Transactions, vol 1, no 20, p 353 as 'The method observed in transfusing the bloud out of one live animal into another: and how this experiment is like to be improved. Some considerations concerning the same'.
Read to the Royal Society on 26 September 1666.
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- RBO/3/42
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- 1666
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Richard Lower, 'A Description Of the Method of transfusing the Bloud [blood] of one Animal into another, contriv'd and used by Dr Lower of Oxford', 1666, RBO/3/42, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_3_42/a-description-of-the-method-of-transfusing-the-bloud-blood-of-one-animal-into-another-contrivd-and-used-by-dr-lower-of-oxford, accessed on 23 March 2025
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