Lower R. An account of the experiment of transfusion, practised upon a man in London, 1667.

Catalog Record: Lower R. An account of the experiment of transfusion, practised upon a man in London, 1667.

Title: An account of the experiment of transfusion, practised upon a man in London / … Richard Lower and Edmund King.

AccessKey: adkc

Author: King, Edmund, Sir, 1629-1709.
Author: Lower, Richard, 1631-1691.

WLM Call Number: WB 356 L953a 1667 RB

Accession No.: RB7429

Publisher: In the Savoy [London] : printed by T.N. for John Martyn, 1667.

Physical Descrip: 557-564 p. ; 23 cm

Language: eng

Subject: Blood Transfusion.

Type of Trace: Printed In
Title: Philosophical transactions, number 30, December 9 1667, p. 557-564.

Abstract: Edmund King reports on experiments he conducted with Richard Lower. The first, transfusing blood from a live calf into a sheep, confirming to them the theory that an animal could live on the blood of another. Then second, transfusing animal blood into a man, Arthur Coga, in late November 1667. A quantity of his own blood was drained by venesection. It was followed by transfusion of sheep’s blood without any reported
adverse effect.

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