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'An Account Of the Experiment of Transfusion made by Dr Lower and Dr King upon Arthur Coga Satturday 23 November 1667'

Reference number: RBO/3/66

Date: 1667

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Account brought by Edmond King and read to the Society on 5 December 1667
Blood transfusion experiment from a sheep to Arthur Coga, divinity student from Cambridge, 'the subject of a harmless form of insanity' (unclear whether sheep survived - the man did for this report)

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions vol 2, no 30, p 557 as 'An account of the experiment of transfusion, practised upon a man in London'.

Experiment carried out on 23 November 1667. Paper read to the Royal Society on 5 December 1667.

Reference number
RBO/3/66
Earliest possible date
1667
Page extent
3 pages
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Manuscript

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'An Account Of the Experiment of Transfusion made by Dr Lower and Dr King upon Arthur Coga Satturday 23 November 1667', 1667, RBO/3/66, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_3_66/an-account-of-the-experiment-of-transfusion-made-by-dr-lower-and-dr-king-upon-arthur-coga-satturday-23-november-1667, accessed on 03 December 2024

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