Reference number | RBO/3/66 |
Alternative reference number | 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 |
Access status | Open |
Related material | DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1666.0053 |
Related records in the catalogue | CLP/12i/16 |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA6102 | Lower; Richard (1631 - 1691); physician and physiologist | 1631 - 1691 |
NA8134 | King; Sir; Edmond (1629 - 1709); physician and surgeon | 1629 - 1709 |