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Arthur Coga’s Blood Transfusion (1667)

Tuesday 15 April 2014 at 17:54

An account of the first ever blood transfusion involving a human in England. Six months after he successfully completed a blood transfusion between two dogs, the experimental physician Richard Lower administered 9oz of sheep's blood into the body of Arthur Coga, a Divinity Student from Cambridge.

Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/arthur-cogas-blood-transfusion-1667/