Circulating life : blood transfusion from ancient superstition to modern medicine /

Winner, Cherie

Circulating life : blood transfusion from ancient superstition to modern medicine / Cherie Winner - Minneapolis : Twenty-First Century Books, c2007 - 112 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm - Discovery! . - Discovery! (Lerner Publications Company) .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-109) and index

A fine humor: early ideas about blood -- A closer look at blood -- The first transfusions -- Answers at last -- Taking blood apart -- Old fears, new dangers -- Twenty-first century blood transfusion -- The future of transfusion

A history of the art of transfusions and a scientific discourse on the chemistry of blood

0822566060 9780822566069

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Blood--Transfusion--Juvenile literature
Blood--Juvenile literature

RM171 / .W56 2007