Summary Of Blood Work By Holly Tucker

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"Blood Work", by Holly Tucker is "A Tale of Medicine & Murder in the Scientific Revolution." The book is a story about Holly Tucker's adventure on trying to find out who actually murdered a madman from Paris hundreds of years ago. that goes by the name, Antoine Mauroy. Today, Mauroy's death interests Tucker and she wants to get to the bottom of this and see who is to blame for his unexpected death.
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The procedure that was used to experiment with played a major role in this book. The winter of 1667, it was one of the coldest winters in awhile. It all began, when physician Jean-Baptiste Denis and surgeon Paul Emmerez made the first blood transfusion with calf's blood into the madman of

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