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James Blundell was an English obstetrician who performed the first successful transfusion of human blood to a patient for treatment of a hemorrhage.
Blundell was named a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1818 and a fellow in 1838.

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James Blundell M.D.

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from Medical Portrait Gallery: Biographical Memoirs of the Most Celebrated Physicians, Surgeons Who Have Contributed to the Advancement of Medical Science (1840)

James Blundell

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James Blundell (physician)

James Blundell (27 December 1790, in Holborn, London – 15 January 1878, in St George Hanover Square, London) was an Englishobstetrician who performed the first successful transfusion of human blood to a patient for treatment of a hemorrhage.^[1]

Early years

James Blundell was born in London. His father's name was Major Blundell and his mother was Sarah Ann Haighton. Major owned a company called Major Blundell and Co. Haberdashers, and Drapers in London.

Like his uncle, who had developed several instruments still used today for the delivery of babies, James specialized in the field of obstetrics. Later he graduated from the University of Edinburgh Medical School with his MD in 1813. A year later he began his career in London by lecturing on midwifery and physiology. By 1818, he succeeded his uncle and became the lecturer on both subjects at Guy's Hospital where his classes on obstetrics and the diseases of women were reported to be the largest in London.

Blood transfusion work

In 1818, Blundell proposed that a blood

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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Blundell, James

BLUNDELL, JAMES (1790–1877), physician, was born in London on 27 Dec. 1790. He was educated by the Rev. T. Thomason, and studied at the United Borough Hospitals under his uncle Dr. Haighton, a well-known physiologist. He graduated as M.D. at Edinburgh on 24 June 1813. In 1814 he began to lecture at London, in conjunction with his uncle, on midwifery, and soon afterwards began a course on physiology. He succeeded Haighton as lecturer at Guy's Hospital, and for many years had the largest class on midwifery in London. He ceased to lecture in 1836. He made a large fortune, leaving 350,000l. He was admitted a licentiate of the College of Physicians in 1818 and fellow on 6 Aug. 1838. He was author of 'Researches, Physiological and Pathological, instituted principally with a View to the Improvement of Medical and Surgical Practice' (1825). Dr. Munk says that this work shows great original research and prepared the way for many improvements in abdominal surgery. He also published 'Principles and Practice of Obstetri