Peter Sahlins · The Public Domain Review · 2023
Beast in the Blood: Jean Denis and the “Transfusion Affair”
Beginning in the spring of 1667, public opinion in Paris was rocked by a remarkable affair involving domesticated animals: the first practical experiments to transfuse animal blood into humans for therapeutic purposes.
Why we picked it
The 1660s controversy over animal-to-human transfusion exposes how experimental medicine, theology, publicity, and ideas about human nature once collided.
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