History Flashcards
Drinking blood as?
A tonic for rejuvination
Treatment of diseases
Vital force; essence of life
Blood
“Blood contains the soul”
Huang Di Nei Ching
Use of blood for Romans
Drink blood of fallen gladiators in the belief that the blood could transmit vitality
Use of blood for Egyptians
- Treat baldness and elephantiasis
- Revive the dead
- For physical and spiritual restoration
- Rejuvinate the old and the incapacitated
Blood letting originated from?
Egypt
Postulates that the body is compromised of four humors
Hippocrates (400 BC)
Four humors
Blood
Phlegm
Yellow bile
Black bile
Imbalance of four humors causes
Disease
Believes that the heart is the central organ of the body
Aristotle (350 BC)
Describe the anatomy of the human body and includes a reference to ‘bright’ and ‘dark’ blood from separate channels in the body which interconnect
Claudius Galenus (162 AD)
Mentions the ‘liver as the origin’ of blood and the ‘kidneys as filters’
Claudius Galenus
The first transfusion was recorded in what year
1492
First unluck recipient of blood transfusion
Pope Innocent VIII
How many young boys donated for Pope Innocent VIII?
3
Described his technique of blood transfusion in 1615
Andreas Libavius
Discovered the circulatory system of the blood in 1616
William Harvey
Published ‘An Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals’
William Harvey
“De Motu Cordis”
William Harvey
Animal to animal transfusion (successful dog to dog transfusion)
Richard Lower
Animal to human transfusion (sheep to human) in 1667
Jean Baptiste-Denis
Jean Baptiste-Denis’s patient whom he used calf’s blood for transfusion
Antoine Mauroy