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The First Blood Transfusion

  by Samuel Pepys (14th November, 1666)
   
  Pepys was an early member of the Royal Society and eventually became its president. The Society met at Gresham College but had been meeting irregularly since the Great Fire of London two months earlier (which Pepys also wrote about). It's rather encouraging to see that people joked around just as much then. You can imagine Dr. Croone getting testy at all the hilarity.
     
 

... and myself to the Popeshead, where all the Houblons were, and Dr. Croone; and by and by to an exceeding pretty supper--excellent discourse of all sorts; and endeed, are a set of the finest gentlemen that ever I met withal in my life.

Here Dr. Croone told me that at the meeting at Gresham College tonight (which it seems they now have every Wednesday again) there was a pretty experiment, of the blood of one Dogg let out (till he died) into the body of another on one side, while all his own run out on the other side. The first died upon the place, and the other very well, and likely to do well. This did give occasion to many pretty wishes, as of the blood of a Quaker to be let into an Archbishop, and such like. But, as Dr. Croone says, may if it takes be of mighty use to man's health, for the amending of bad blood by borrowing from a better body.

 
     
 
 
     

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