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Experiments carried out between a sheep and a dog, between a fox and a lamb

Also observations of ants; of a cat dissected alive; of strangling a dog and trying to bring it back to life; of dissecting a bitch that had just copulated

Read to the Royal Society on 25 July 1667

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RBO/3/58
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1667
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Edmond King

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Edmond King, 'A Further Account Of some Experiments of Transfusion made by Dr King at his house', 1667, RBO/3/58, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_3_58/a-further-account-of-some-experiments-of-transfusion-made-by-dr-king-at-his-house, accessed on 07 June 2026

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