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  <dc:title>Letter, from Henry Oldenburg to Monsieur [Jean-Baptiste] Denis</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Details of the man who has had two blood transfusions; that the blood transfusion experiment had been recommended to hospital physicians; that blood transfusions might be able to cure dropsy, gout, scurvy, pox; questioning information from Danzig (Gdansk, Poland) of the man who was cured of pox and a woman of epilepsy by injecting  their veins; wishes for details about the madman who had been given a blood transfusion</dc:description>
  <dc:date>23 December 1667</dc:date>
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