The WLM has begun to digitize its rare book collection for access and preservation. View sample titles from our Blood Transfusion and Shock Therapy Collection:

Blundell, James. Vol. II Observations on Transfusion of Blood, with a Description of His Gravitator. Vol. I Lectures on the Gravid Uterus, and on the Diseases of Women and Children, 1828-29.

Blundell, James. Some Account of a Case of Obstinate Vomiting, in which an Attempt was Made to Prolong Life, by the Injection of Blood into the Veins.
RB Journal Collection. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, vol. 10.

Boyle, Robert. A Confirmation of the Experiments, Mentioned in Numb 27, to have been made by Signor Fracassati in Italy, by Injecting Acid Liquors into Blood, 1667.

Elsholtz, Johann Sigismund. Clysmatica nova, sive ratio, qua in venam sectam medicamenta immuti possint, ut eodem modo, ac si per os assumpta fuissent, operentus: in animantibus per drastica, in homine per leniora heotenus probata, & adserta, 1665.

Ferrein, Antoine. An transfusio sanguinis in aminalibus sive ejusdem, sive diversae speciei sit possibilis, & utilis, 1732.

Feinblatt, Henry M. Transfusion of Blood.

Guthrie, G. J. (George James). On Gun-Shot Wounds of the Extremities, Requiring the Different Operations of Amputation, with their After-Treatment : Establishing the Advantages of Amputation of the Field of Battel to the Delay Usually Recommended … .. , 1815.

Landsteiner, Karl. On Individual Differences in Human Blood, 1928.

Lower, Richard. An Account of the Experiment of Transfusion, Practised upon a Man in London, 1667.

Lower, Richard. The Method Observed in Transfusing the Bloud [Blood] out of One Animal into Another, 1667.

Lower, Richard. Tractatus de corde. Item de motu & colore sanguinis et chyli in eum transit, 1669.

Major, Johann Daniel. Chirurgia infusoria, placidis cl: virorum dubiis impugnata, cum modesta, ad eadem, responsione, 1667.

Mantegazza, Paolo. Ricerche sperimentali sull ’origine della fibrina e sulla causa della coagulazione del sangue, 1871.

Mercklin, Georg Abraham. Tractatio med. curiosa, de ortu & occasu transfusionis sanguinis, qua haec, quae fit e bruto in brutum,……..1679.

Ponfick, Emil. Experimentelle Beiträge zur Lehre von der transfusion, 1875.

Santinelli, Bartolomeo. Confusio transfusionis sive, confutatio operationis transfundentis sanguinem de individuo ad individuum, 1668.

Simili, Alessandro. Origine e vicende della trasfusione del sangue : considerazioni storico-critiche, viii tavole fuori testo, 1933.