LOWER, Richard (1631 – 1691)
1631 – 1691
6 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1665 CE–1666 CE
#2012
The method observed in transfusing the blood out of one live animal into another.
In February 1665 Lower successfully transfused dogs with blood.
1667 CE
#2014
An account of the experiment of transfusion, practised upon a man in London.
First transfusion of blood performed on a human in England, Nov. 23, 1667.
1669 CE
#761
Tractatus de corde.
Lower was the first to demonstrate the scroll-like structure of the cardiac muscle. He was one of the first to transfuse blood. Chapter III of the above work records how Lower injected dark venous blood into the insuf…
1670 CE
#3246
Dissertatio de origine catarrhi in qua ostenditur illum non provenire a cerebro. IN: Tractatus de corde, pp. 221-39.
With Schneider, Lower overthrew the idea that nasal mucus originated in the brain. This discovery localized nasal catarrh in the air passages and put an end to the use of many recipes for “purging the brain&rdqu…
1684 CE
#11684
Myographia nova, or a graphical description of all the muscles in the human body; with one and forty copper-plates.
Browne's treatise on the muscles consisted of six lectures, illustrated by copperplates. It was, however, a plagiarism, as was pointed out by James Yonge: it put together text from the Muskotomia by William Molins wit…
1935 CE
#11516
