Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HouseofWorks.com.

Hello and welcome to the podcast.

I'm DeBlena Chaukoworti and I'm Theradali.

And today we are taking another look at blood.

Blood work specifically.

Blood work specifically.

We got a chance to go see Holly Tucker who is an associate professor at Vanderbilt University

in National Tennessee.

Speak at the Decatur Book Festival about her new book called Blood Work, A Tale of Medicine

and Murder in the Scientific Revolution.

And Holly's book covers the first blood transfusion, the first human blood transfusion performed

by a man named Jean Baptiste de Nis in France.

And believe it or not, the 1600s.

And she talks a little bit in this book about how his experiments were shut down and why.

And the murder mystery surrounding this whole thing.

So in part one of our interview with Holly Tucker, we talked a little bit with her about

the history of blood circulation and blood transfusion just to get a little bit of background

to this story.

How do they were coming from?

Yeah, how did they even get to this point where they were doing blood transfusions in

the 1600s?

And so she talked to us a little bit about that and people's previous notions about blood

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