Record

RefNoRBO/3/42
AltRefNoRBO.3.159
LevelItem
Title'A Description Of the Method of transfusing the Bloud [blood] of one Animal into another, contriv'd and used by Dr Lower of Oxford'
Date1666
DescriptionLower provides details of how to carry out a blood transfusion from one dog to another with suggestions about how to prevent one from dying. The paper was extracted from a letter from Lower to Robert Boyle.

Subject: Medicine

Published in Philosophical Transactions, vol 1, no 20, p 353 as 'The method observed in transfusing the bloud out of one live animal into another: and how this experiment is like to be improved. Some considerations concerning the same'.

Read to the Royal Society on 26 September 1666.
LanguageEnglish
Extent4 sides
FormatManuscript
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterial'DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1665.0128
RelatedRecordCLP/12i/7
RBC/2/81
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CodePersonNameDates
NA6102Lower; Richard (1631 - 1691); physician and physiologist1631 - 1691
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