A brief historical account of blood transfusion
Vol 8 No 4 (2019), Medicine and Society
Vol 8 No 4 (2019)

A brief historical account of blood transfusion

Medicine and Society
https://doi.org/10.48037/mbmj.v8i4.60
Published August 1, 2019
Ola Yahaya
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Keywords

Blood transfusion
History of medicine

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