Magnus Pegel (or Pegelius or Pegelow) (15 May 1547 – 1619) was a German doctor and mathematician.[1] Pegel was born in Rostock in Pomerania/Germany and was one of the first authors to write (in 1604) about the theory of blood transfusions.[2][3][4][5] He died at Stettin.

Magnus Pegel

Works

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  • "Disputatio de peste"
  • "Universi seu mundi Diatyposis"
  • "Thesaurus rerum selectarum"
  • "Aphorismi thesum selectarum"

References

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  1. ^ "Pegel, Magnus", Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
  2. ^ F. J. Cole (1921), "The history of anatomical injections", in Charles Singer (ed.), Studies in the history and method of science, Vol II
  3. ^ J Greenwalt (August 1995), "The history and future of transfusion medicine", Transfusion Today (23), ISSN 1015-3276
  4. ^ Theophilus Parvin (1874), "Address in obstetrics diseases of women and children", Transactions of the American Medical Association, American Medical Association
  5. ^ Douglas W. Huestis; Joseph R. Bove; Shirley Busch (1970), Practical blood transfusion