Record

Reference numberRBO/3/66
Alternative reference numberRBO.3.233
LevelItem
Title'An Account Of the Experiment of Transfusion made by Dr Lower and Dr King upon Arthur Coga Satturday 23 November 1667'
Date1667
DescriptionAccount 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.
LanguageEnglish
Extent3 sides
FormatManuscript
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1666.0053
Related records in the catalogueCLP/12i/16
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA6102Lower; Richard (1631 - 1691); physician and physiologist1631 - 1691
NA8134King; Sir; Edmond (1629 - 1709); physician and surgeon1629 - 1709
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