| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxix, 304 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The doctor and the madman -- Circulation -- The age of vivisection -- Plague and fire -- Philosophical transactions -- Noble ambitions -- How high will he not climb? -- The king's library -- The philosopher's stone -- The blood of a beast -- The Tower of London -- Bedlam -- Monsters and marvels -- The widow -- The affair of the poisons -- Chimeras. |
| Summary |
A sharp-eyed expose of the deadly politics, murderous plots, and cutthroat rivalries behind the first blood transfusions in seventeenth-century Europe. |
| Subject |
Denis, Jean-Baptiste, -1704.
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Blood -- Transfusion -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
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| ISBN |
0393070557 (hardcover) |
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9780393070552 (hardcover) |
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