Biography of dr james blundell
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James Blundell (physician)
James Blundell (27 månad 1790, in Holborn, London – 15 January 1878, in St George hannover Square, London) was an Englishobstetrician who performed the first successful transfusion of human blood to a patient for treatment of a hemorrhage.[1]
Early years
[edit]James Blundell was born in London. His father's name was Major Blundell and his mother was Sarah Ann Haighton. Major owned a company called Major Blundell and Co. Haberdashers, and Drapers in London.
Like his uncle, who had developed several instruments still used today for the delivery of babies, James specialized in the field of obstetrics. Later he graduated from the University of Edinburgh Medical School with his MD in 1813. A year later he began his career in London by lecturing on midwifery and physiology. By 1818, he succeeded his uncle and became the lecturer on both subjects at Guy's Hospital where his classes on obstetrics and the diseases of women were reported to
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If this were Regency times, I wouldn’t be putting my thoughts into writing today. Given the medical misfortunes I’ve suffered recently, I would be dead. Sobering, right? Let me tell you, right now my appreciation for a certain Regency doctor and his contributions to modern medicine is boundless. I’ll get to the part where Princess Charlotte fits in shortly. Bear with me!
Diane’s March 5th post about the Brontes and the ways disease decimated their family was a vivid reminder of how far modern medicine has come in the understanding, prevention and treatment of diseases. I am thanking God and the stars right now for the similar advancement in medical tools and techniques, and understanding of the human body. In particular (and also most appropriately in this year of 2018), I am grateful for Dr. James Blundell, who was so horrified by the frequent deaths of women from bleeding after childbirth that he managed to re-open the medical world to studyin
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James Blundell M.D.
Today in Science History - Quickie Quiz
from Medical Portrait Gallery: Biographical Memoirs of the Most Celebrated Physicians, Surgeons Who Have Contributed to the Advancement of Medical Science (1840)
James Blundell
“Animo vidit; ingenio complexus est; eloquentia illuminavit.” *
Paterculus.
[p.1] In the preceding Memoirs, it hath been the writer's aim to dwell upon the qualifications essential to a practitioner of the medical art, and to illustrate the several points by reference to particular individuals. To accomplish this object, a Biographical History of Medicine, embracing a notice of all those who have contributed to the advancement of Medical Science, seems peculiarly fitted. A late venerable prelate,** no less characterized by his great piety and erudition than by the sweetness of his disposition and the entire harmony of his nature, whom to have known is esteemed by the writer of this article a high honour and great gratificat