Strange Blood The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th Century Medicine and Beyond

In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the USA. Doctors tried it as a cure for tuberculosis, pellagra and anemia; proposed it as a means to reanimate seemingly dead soldiers on the battlefield. It was a contested therapy because...

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Huvudskapare: Berner, Boel (auth)
Materialtyp: Elektronisk Bokavsnitt
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2020
Serie:Medical Humanities 5
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