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3. Cross section of Blundell’s Gravitator, 1824
Cross section of Blundell’s Gravitator from Researches Physiological and Pathological, 1824
Author: James Blundell (1790–1878)
Courtesy National Library of Medicine
James Blundell developed a copper cup with a metal handle to collect blood and funnel it from the donor to the recipient. After a woman received a few ounces of her husband’s blood, the medical journal, The Lancet, noted in 1834, “Life seemed to be immediately reanimated as by an electric spark.”