Blog category: transfusion
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Blood Transfusion History: Infusing Life
October 5, 2018
In 1818, British obstetrician James Blundell performed the first human-to-human blood transfusion. Although the patient died, Blundell’s transfusion experiments, and his certainty that human patients required human blood, led to advances in transfusion medicine that continue into the present. Here’s a bit of blood transfusion history. There’s even a Bonaparte connection.
We must confess that fate, which sports with man, makes merry work with the affairs of this world.
Napoleon Bonaparte