June 15, 1667: First Human Blood Transfusion Is Performed
1667: The first blood transfusion involving a human being is performed. Jean-Baptiste Denys, personal physician to France’s Louis XIV, is generally credited with performing the first human blood...
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1666: Samuel Pepys, writing in his famous diary, records the first description of a blood transfusion. Pepys (whose name is usually pronounced Peeps, or occasionally Peppis) was an able administrator...
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