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'An Account Of the Experiment of preserving Animals alive by blowing through their Lungs with Bellows' brought in by Robert Hooke

Reference number: RBO/3/61

Date: 24 October 1667

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Description of an experiment at the Royal Society from Robert Hooke, repeating an earlier observation.
Opening the thorax of a dog, the animal is maintained alive by using bellows to blow air directly in their lungs, reanimation techniques are also trialled.
Hooke notes that it proves that the air is required for the blood to circulate.
Printed in the Philosophical Transactions vol. 2, no. 28, p. 539

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RBO/3/61
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24 October 1667
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3 pages
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Robert Hooke

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Robert Hooke, 'An Account Of the Experiment of preserving Animals alive by blowing through their Lungs with Bellows' brought in by Robert Hooke, 24 October 1667, RBO/3/61, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_3_61/an-account-of-the-experiment-of-preserving-animals-alive-by-blowing-through-their-lungs-with-bellows-brought-in-by-robert-hooke, accessed on 19 April 2025

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