'Some Experiments of Transfusion made by Dr [Edmond] King at his own House'
Reference number: RBO/3/54
Date: 1667
Description
Paper recounting an easier and safer method to carry out blood transfusions between animals by using their veins rather than their arteries.
King provides observations of a blood transfusion between a calf and a sheep, and observations of a dog that was injected with milk with dissolved sugar.
Experiments conducted on 29 March 1667; 4 April 1667; 5 April 1667.
Read to the Royal Society on 18 April 1667, printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 2, no 25, p 449
- Reference number
- RBO/3/54
- Earliest possible date
- 1667
- Page extent
- 5 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Edmond King, 'Some Experiments of Transfusion made by Dr [Edmond] King at his own House', 1667, RBO/3/54, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_3_54/some-experiments-of-transfusion-made-by-dr-edmond-king-at-his-own-house, accessed on 20 January 2026
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An account of an easier and safer way of transfusing blood out of one animal into another, viz. by the veins, without opening any artery of either External link, opens in new tab.
Date: 30th December 1666
DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1666.0011
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Paper, 'Accounts of experiments of transfusion made by Dr King at his house' by Edmond King
Creator: Edmond King Reference number: CLP/12i/9
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 3, copies of papers communicated 1663-1668
1663-1668 Reference number: RBO/3
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