Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach 4:45 p.m., April 27, 2022
In 1667, the French physician Jean-Baptiste Denis (approx. 1635-1704) injected lamb's blood into a young man weakened by successive bloodlettings.
This is the first known blood transfusion in humans.
After a second trial with dramatic consequences, the doctor stops his trials.
It was not until the bloodshed caused by the First World War that the first transfusion was carried out from one man to another.
In 1923, Dr. Arnault Tzanck (1886-1954) opened the first blood transfusion center in France, at the Saint-Antoine hospital in Paris.
30 years later, this pioneer will be the inspiration for the law of July 1952 regulating the ethical principles of blood donation.