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So a question for my followers: Give your best guess as to why this could have worked without looking it up.

So how did a blood transfusion treat syphilis? Well, in the 1700s, blood transfusions were not done with human blood- they were done with animal blood, usually lamb or calf blood. Since biblically calf or lamb blood was pure and contributed to the sweet nature of the animals, it was thought that if given to someone who was experiencing paranoia and hallucinations, the psychotic symptoms would decrease. This was not the case.

The first documented xenotransfusions (animal to human transfusions) were by French physician Jean-Baptiste Denis and barber-surgeon Paul Emmerez. In 1667 they transfused lamb blood into a 15 year old boy with fevers who was being bled via leeches and another middle aged man. Both of them survived, most likely because the amount of blood actually transfused was so small it didn't trigger a reaction.

The same year English physicians Richard Lower and Edmund King transfused lamb blood into Arthur Coga, a Divinity student described as "a very freakish and extravagant man" with the intent to make him more docile. There was no mention of him being psychotic, in fact he was chosen because he was well educated and could record his own experience of the trial. He was the one who said lamb's blood was symbolic of the blood of Christ, not the physicians themselves. He was transfused once on Nov 23 and again on Dec 12 with no change to his temperament although he did start signing his letters with ‘Agnus Coga’ aka ‘Coga the Sheep’.

Denis and Emmerez then tranfused Antoine Mauroy who was prone to running away and cheating on his wife. He had 2 transfusions which resulted in what we now recognise as a haemolytic transfusion response from inter-species incompatibility. He eventually recovered and went home. Few months later his wife brought him back asking for another transfusion as he had become violent and irrational. However he died before recieving the transfusion. Denis was put on trial for manslaughter but was acquitted as it turns out the wife was poisoning Mauroy with arsenic the entire time.

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“heh… remember strawbebby…. And ranibow spramkle… always made me laugh”

“Don’t talk like that man. We’re gonna get out of here i prommy.” [mortar fire sails overhead and land nearby] “christ its like a childrens hospital out there”

[through shallow breaths] “I always loved…… the color of the sky…………”

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