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Review
. 2014 Jan;12(1):14-21.
doi: 10.2450/2013.0131-13. Epub 2013 Nov 14.

Blood and blood-associated symbols beyond medicine and transfusion: far more complex than first appears

Olivier Garraud  1 , Jean-Jacques Lefrère  2
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Review

Blood and blood-associated symbols beyond medicine and transfusion: far more complex than first appears

Olivier Garraud et al. Blood Transfus. 2014 Jan.
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Figure 1
Codex Mendoza, Aztec sacrifice. Sixteenth Century. The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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Figure 2
A bleeding of the past (bloodletting). A woman sitting in a chair is being bled by two physicians while a third physician kneels at her side holding a clyster; a post-mortem is taking place in the background. National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, MD.
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Figure 3
Head of King Louis XVI. Villeneuve, “Matière à réflection pour les jongleurs couronnées” (Matter for thought for crowned twisters), 1793, Engraving, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.
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Figure 4
“Operation of direct transfusion of live blood carried out on 7 February 1882”, published in the Atlas Populaire de Médecine, de Chirurgie, by Emile Littré (J-B Bailliere et fils, Paris, 1883).
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