Physiology and Medicine
- Robert Hooke demonstrates that the alteration of the blood in the lungs is essential for respiration.
- Jean-Baptiste Denys performs the first blood transfusion from a lamb into a boy.
- Thomas Willis publishes Pathologicae Cerebri, et nervosi generis specimen.
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