Myhre B A
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance.
Transfusion. 1990 May;30(4):358-62. doi: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.1990.30490273445.x.
The transfusion of blood was only one of many scientific competitions in which the citizens of France and England engaged in the 1600s. This particular competition laid the foundations for transfusion therapy that were built on 100 years later when more was known about blood. At the time of the studies discussed here, the most important goal seemed to be the establishment of the primacy of the discovery by one or the other nation. In this, most scholars give Lower and the English the first animal-to-animal transfusion and Denys and the French the first animal-to-man transfusion. However, even though this national primacy might not seem so important now, we must realize that the international competition created knowledge that still benefits us today, and those results might not have been produced so swiftly if the competition had not taken place.
输血只是17世纪法国和英国公民参与的众多科学竞赛之一。这场特殊的竞赛为输血疗法奠定了基础，100年后，当人们对血液有了更多了解时，输血疗法得以进一步发展。在本文所讨论的研究时期，最重要的目标似乎是确立一个国家或另一个国家在这一发现上的领先地位。在这方面，大多数学者认为洛厄（Lower）和英国人进行了首次动物间输血，而丹尼斯（Denys）和法国人进行了首次动物到人的输血。然而，尽管这种国家领先地位如今可能看起来不那么重要，但我们必须认识到，这种国际竞争催生了至今仍使我们受益的知识，如果没有这场竞争，这些成果可能不会如此迅速地产生。
