5/28/2023 0 Comments Blood Work by Holly TuckerAnesthesia was unknown, so readers may squirm at the author’s detailed descriptions. Tucker focuses on events during the 1660s when individuals in London and Paris performed a flurry of transfusions. Renaissance anatomists corrected other ancient errors, but they worked from dead bodies, so it was 1628 before Englishman William Harvey correctly described the circulation of the blood, a controversial finding hotly debated for years. Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early Modern France, 2003) explains how ancient authorities taught that digested food becomes blood, which seeps into the heart and burns, and that breathing blows off fumes from the heart’s furnace. Tucker (History of Medicine/Vanderbilt Univ. Lurid and often gruesome scientific history of blood transfusions in 17th-century France and England.
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