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Transfusio sanguinis ex animali in animal

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Title

Transfusio sanguinis ex animali in animal

Subject

Blood transfusion
Dogs
Book Illustrations

Description

Artist unknown.
Blood transfusion from animal to animal. Two dogs bound to a table with a tube inserted into an artery in the leg of one dog and tubes inserted into a vein in the neck of the other.
Title taken from explanation of the figure on the following page.

Source

Original Image in: Elsholtz, Johann Sigismund, 1623-1688. Clysmatica nova (Coloniae Brandenburgicae : Ex officina Georgi Schultzi impensis Danielis Reichelii, 1667). Qdd 46a (Historical Medical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
Clysmatica nova was one of the first books to discuss blood transfusion and the intravenous injection of drugs. This greatly expanded second edition included plates that depict the transfusion of blood from animal to animal, man to man, and animal to man.

Publisher

Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Date

1667

Language

lat

Type

StillImage

Identifier

Qdd_46a.pl3

Original Format

1 print : engraving

Physical Dimensions

13 x 8 cm

Citation

“Transfusio sanguinis ex animali in animal,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed November 21, 2024, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/2160.