| RefNo | RBO/3/66 |
| AltRefNo | RBO.3.233 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | 'An Account Of the Experiment of Transfusion made by Dr Lower and Dr King upon Arthur Coga Satturday 23 November 1667' |
| Date | 1667 |
| Description | 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. |
| Language | English |
| Extent | 3 sides |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1666.0053 |
| RelatedRecord | CLP/12i/16 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA6102 | Lower; Richard (1631 - 1691); physician and physiologist | 1631 - 1691 |
| NA8134 | King; Sir; Edmond (1629 - 1709); physician and surgeon | 1629 - 1709 |