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'An Account Of an Experiment of Transfusing of Bloud [blood] out of one Animal into another; First performed by Dr Lower at Oxford' brought to the Royal Society by Edmond King

Reference number: RBO/3/45

Date: 1666

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Communicated to the Royal Society in Gresham College by Dr King and Mr Thomas Coxe, two of the appointed curators by the Society to carry out Lower's blood transfusion experiment using sheep, and then using a bull dog and a spaniel

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RBO/3/45
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1666
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2 pages
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Edmond King

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Edmond King, 'An Account Of an Experiment of Transfusing of Bloud [blood] out of one Animal into another; First performed by Dr Lower at Oxford' brought to the Royal Society by Edmond King, 1666, RBO/3/45, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_3_45/an-account-of-an-experiment-of-transfusing-of-bloud-blood-out-of-one-animal-into-another-first-performed-by-dr-lower-at-oxford-brought-to-the-royal-society-by-edmond-king, accessed on 05 December 2024

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