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'Account Of an Experiment made by Mr Thomas Cox Of bleeding a Mangy into a Sound Dog'

Reference number: RBO/3/57

Date: 1667

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Coxe recounts an experiment to transfuse blood from a dog infected with mange into a healthy spaniel. The spaniel was unaffected and the infected dog was cured within a fortnight.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'An account of another experiment of transfusion, viz. of bleeding a mangy into a sound dog'.

Read to the Royal Society on 4 April 1667, printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 2, no 25, p 451

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RBO/3/57
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1667
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Coxe

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Thomas Coxe, 'Account Of an Experiment made by Mr Thomas Cox Of bleeding a Mangy into a Sound Dog', 1667, RBO/3/57, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_3_57/account-of-an-experiment-made-by-mr-thomas-cox-of-bleeding-a-mangy-into-a-sound-dog, accessed on 07 February 2026

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