Blood work, a tale of medicine and murder in the scientific revolution, Holly Tucker
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Blood work, a tale of medicine and murder in the scientific revolution, Holly Tucker
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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illustrations
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non fiction
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Blood work
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dictionariesbibliography
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916068397
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Holly Tucker
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a tale of medicine and murder in the scientific revolution
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A sharp-eyed expose of the deadly politics, murderous plots, and cutthroat rivalries behind the first blood transfusions in seventeenth-century Europe
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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
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