Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2325

SIR GEOFFREY LANGDON KEYNES (1887-1982) Blood transfusion. Simpkin Marshall 1949 xii, 574 pp., front., illus. (facsims.). 21.6 cm.

The opening chapter of the book is devoted to a history of transfusion and other remedial manipulations of the blood, dating from antiquity. It is written by the book's editor, Sir Geoffrey Keynes, the well-known English physician, researcher, biographer, bibliographer, and medical historian. Although Keynes had written the definitive text on blood transfusion in 1922, he now felt that the field had become so broad that he was "competent to write only the historical section" (Preface, p. viii). The remainder of the book is by various British physicians and scientists on the uses of blood, blood groups, blood derivatives and substitutes, complications of transfusion, the organization for transfusion in the hospital, and the techniques for obtaining, preserving, storing, and transfusing blood.

Gift of John Martin, M.D.