Notes to follow up:
Dr James Blundell - 1791-1878 - obstetrician - performed the first successfully transfusion of blood to a female patient suffering a postpartum hemorrhage 1818
Blood transfusion - early attempts using animal blood - 17th France and England - Royal Society - before it was made illegal following deaths - probably from alergic reactions
1667 - London Arthur Coga - first to recieve blood transfusion from lamb's blood
1616 - William Harvey - discovered the circulation of blood - the heart was not the mystical centre of the body but a pump
