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Sep 7, 2021 · Innocent's Doctor Was A Jewish Man, And In One Version Of The Story, The Blood Came From Christian Children. The man behind the oral blood transfusion suggestion seems to have been Innocent's Jewish physician, a guy named Giacomo di San Genesio. He'd previously cured Innocent of bouts of fever. In this recounting of the events around Innocent's ...
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words, when exactly the first transfusion from man to man took place. The blood transfusion given to Pope Innocent VIII is often referred to, be it only incidentally, as in a recent paper of Maluf.1 The Pope died on 25 July 1492. Some days previously, as the story goes, a Jewish physician had infused the blood of three ten-year-old
Jul 12, 2011 · By some accounts, the first transfusion was performed on Pope Innocent VIII in 1492; some claimed that he was transfused with or—at the very least—had drunk the blood of Jewish boys.
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blood from the arm veins of youths for rejuvenation. A recipient of this "tonic" was Pope Innocent VIII, who, in 1492, was given a draught of blood from three youths for strength and rejuvenation. The first detailed description of transfusion is that of Libavius. Andreas Libavius (1546-1616) of Halle in Saxony, a chemist,
- Introduction
- The Origins of The Story
- The Propaganda Piece
- Conclusion
- References
It is a story often repeated in medical textbooks: in 1492, Innocent VIII lay dying. His physician attempted the first recorded blood transfusion, transfusing the blood of three children into the deteriorating Pope. The treatment failed, and Innocent’s uneasy reign over Rome ended shortly afterwards. The story, set nearly 150 years before William H...
Lindeboom traces the modern origins of the story to Pasquale Villari, an Italian author in the mid-nineteenth century. Villari writes of Innocent VIII’s decaying state, reduced to a “sort of stupor for some time… In vain [the court] had tried to revive [the Pope’s] exhausted energies. Then a Jewish physician proposed to try a blood transfusion by m...
This story was likely meant to redirect focus from Innocent’s ineffective rule—a period marked by unrest—to a Jewish scapegoat.6 Innocent had shown some relative favor to Jewish physicians, allowing a man named Abram di Mayr de Balmes of Lecce to practice medicine without regard to person,7 thus contradicting the 1267 Council of Venice ruling. This...
With this undercurrent of blood libel in mind, when we re-examine the story of Innocent VIII’s purported transfusion, it becomes clear that the tale was just one in a long series of anti-Semitic stories that circulated through the medieval European consciousness.8The original story may have been of some use to Innocent’s public image, portraying hi...
Learoyd P. The history of blood transfusion prior to the 20th century – Part 1. Transfusion Medicine.2012;22(5):308-314. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3148.2012.01180.x.Lindeboom GA. The Story of a Blood Transfusion to a Pope. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 1954;9(4):455-459. doi:10.2307/24619486.Brown HM. The Beginnings of Intravenous Medication. Annals of Medical History. 1917;1(2):177-197.Maluf NSR. History of Blood Transfusion.Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 1954;9(1):59-107. doi:10.2307/24619834.Mar 16, 2011 · The first recorded attempt of a blood transfusion was described by the 15th-century chronicler Stefano Infessura. In 1492, Infessura noted that the blood of three boys was given to Pope Innocent VIII, who had fallen into a coma.
Jun 28, 2021 · If Pope Innocent XI (the Pope in 1678) had issued ‘a special edict’ prohibiting blood transfusion then this document would have a title, named by its first words in Latin, and would have a specific date. Thus, for example, Pope Innocent XI condemned 65 propositions on moral questions in the Bull Sanctissimus Dominus dated 2 March 1679 ...
