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Observations on Blood-Letting
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  • Marshall Hall, detail of an engraving by J. Holl, 1839, after a portrait by J.Z. Bell
    Marshall Hall

    …the practice of bloodletting in Observations on Blood-Letting (1830). In his Experimental Essay on the Circulation of the Blood (1831), he was the first to show that the capillaries bring the blood into contact with the tissues.

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    …the practice of bloodletting in Observations on Blood-Letting (1830). In his Experimental Essay on the Circulation of the Blood (1831), he was the first to show that the capillaries bring the blood into contact with the tissues.

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