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Tucker, Holly.
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Denis, Jean-Baptiste, d. 1704.
Blood -- Transfusion -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
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Blood work : a tale ...
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Blood work : a tale of medicine and murder in the scientific revolution / Holly Tucker.
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Tucker, Holly.
New York : W.W. Norton, c2011.
Subjects
Denis, Jean-Baptiste, d. 1704.
Blood -- Transfusion -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
ISBN:
9780393070552 (hardcover)
0393070557 (hardcover)
Description:
xxix, 304 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
The doctor and the madman -- Circulation -- The age of vivisection -- Plague and fire -- Philosophical transactions -- Noble ambitions -- How high will he not climb? -- The king's library -- The philosopher's stone -- The blood of a beast -- The Tower of London -- Bedlam -- Monsters and marvels -- The widow -- The affair of the poisons -- Chimeras.
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A sharp-eyed expose of the deadly politics, murderous plots, and cutthroat rivalries behind the first blood transfusions in seventeenth-century Europe.
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Hawaii State Library
Business, Science & Technology
615.39 Tu
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Kailua Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
615.39 Tu
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