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Reference numberRBO/3/62
Alternative reference numberRBO.3.205
LevelItem
Title'A Method Of Transfusing Bloud [blood] into Man contrived by Dr King'
Date1667
DescriptionExtract of a letter by King regarding an untried method of transfusing the blood from the artery of a lamb or kid into the vein of a human.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions vol 2, no 28, p 522 as part of paper titled 'An account of more tryals of transfusion, accompanied with some considerations thereon, chiefly in reference to its circumspect practice on Man; together with a farther vindication of this invention from usurpers'.

Read to the Royal Society on 24 October 1667.
LanguageEnglish
Extent2 sides
FormatManuscript
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1666.0039
Related records in the catalogueCLP/12i/12
RBC/2/101
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8134King; Sir; Edmond (1629 - 1709); physician and surgeon1629 - 1709
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