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Daring Humors

Published on June 15, 2013 by in 1600s

Today blood wasn’t spilled. The first blood transfusions were administered on this day in 1667, when French physician Jean-Baptiste Denys transfused something over a cup of sheep’s blood into a child and then an adult. Blood had long been seen as the key to physical health. The ancient Greeks saw it as one of four

 
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