Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution by Holly Tucker

Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution

Holly Tucker

304 pages hardcover 2010

5 editions

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced
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On a cold day in 1667, a renegade physician named Jean Denis transfused calf's blood into one of Paris's most notorious madmen. In doing so, Denis angered not only the elite scientists who had hoped to perform the first animal-to-human transfusion...

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