About This Item
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 April 19, 2024, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/2160.