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LEACOCK, John Henry ( – 1828)

– 1828

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1817 CE

#9701

On transfusion of blood in extreme cases of haemorrhage.

In 1816 Leacock, from Barbados, reported systematic experiments in Edinburgh on dogs and cats that established that donor and recipient must be of the same species, and recommended inter-human transfusion; he then ret…