Resumen de Strange Blood. The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th Century Medicine and Beyond, by Boel Berner
Boel Berner, Strange Blood. The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th Century Medicine and Beyond. Medical Humanities Vol. 5. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2020. 216 p. ISBN: 9783837651638.
Strange Blood depicts the practice of lamb blood transfusion for human medicine that spread in various situations across Europe in the 1870s. After a historical sketch on blood transfusion, including interspecies attempts, we are introduced to three relatively marginal physicians, Oscar Hasse, Franz Gesellius and Joseph-Antoine Roussel, who were, each with their specific aims and motives, instrumental in the development of lamb blood transfusion.
