Jean baptiste denys biography

French physician

Jean-Baptiste Denys (c. 1635 – 3 October 1704) was a French physician^[1] notable for having performed the first fully documented human blood transfusion, a xenotransfusion. He studied in Montpellier and was the personal physician to King Louis XIV.

Early life

Jean-Baptiste Denys was born in the 1630s, although his birth went unnoticed and undocumented. His father was an artisan who specialized in water pumps, which were seeing an increase in popularity and sophistication during the time of his birth. Denys' passion for medicine was also influenced due to his own suffering from asthma.^[2]

Education

Denys obtained a bachelor's in theology at the Collège des Grassins [fr] and a medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine in Montpellier. Denys’ ambition drew him to attempt a career in Paris, but the university's poor reputation made him an outsider to the Paris's wealthy scientific elite.

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On J, the first direct blood transfusion to a human was performed by the physician Jean-Baptiste Denis, when he gave a feverish young man approximately 12 ounces of blood taken from a lamb.

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On this day in 1667, a prominent French physician named Jean-Baptiste Denys performed the first documented blood transfusion to a human.

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Born / · Bachelor in Theology, Collège des Grassins · Doctor of the Faculty of medicine of Montpellier · Physician to King Louis XIV · Died.

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On this day in , a prominent French physician named Jean-Baptiste Denys performed the first documented blood transfusion to a human.

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On J, the first direct blood transfusion to a human was performed by the physician Jean-Baptiste Denis, when he gave a feverish young man approximately 12 ounces of blood taken from a lamb.

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Jean-Baptiste Denys was a French physician notable for having performed the first fully documented human blood transfusion, a xenotransfusion.

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Learn about this topic in these articles: Meanwhile, in France, Jean-Baptiste Denis, court physician to King Louis XIV, had also been transfusing lambs’ blood into human subjects and described what is probably the first recorded account of the signs and symptoms of a hemolytic transfusion reaction.