Blood work : a tale of medicine and murder in the scientific revolution
Summary
A sharp-eyed expose of the deadly politics, murderous plots, and cutthroat rivalries behind the first blood transfusions in seventeenth-century Europe. Full description
- The doctor and the madman
- Circulation
- The age of vivisection
- Plague and fire
- Philosophical transactions
- Noble ambitions
- How high will he not climb?
- The king's library
- The philosopher's stone
- The blood of a beast
- The Tower of London
- Bedlam
- Monsters and marvels
- The widow
- The affair of the poisons
- Chimeras.