![]() The final chapters recounting events in Paris from 1667 to 1668 are particularly riveting in the end, the primary patient being treated was murdered by a physician who was opposed on religious and conceptual grounds to the very idea of blood transfusions. The main thrust of the tragic story is that transfusions were ultimately forbidden for centuries in France because of medical politics, personality clashes, and scientific and religious dogma. The narrative has an intimate style that includes precise descriptions of people and events as well as reconstructions of conversations that were never documented. Holly Tucker, a medical historian at Vanderbilt, has written a history of the ill-fated first animal and human blood transfusions during the early phase of the scientific revolution of the late 17th century in England and France. ![]()
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