Jean baptiste denys biography
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Jean-Baptiste Denys
French physician
Jean-Baptiste Denys (c. 1635 – 3 October 1704) was a French physician[1] notable for having performed the first fully documented human blood transfusion, a xenotransfusion.
He studied in Montpellier and was the personal physician to King Louis XIV.
Early life
Jean-Baptiste Denys was born in the 1630s, although his birth went unnoticed and undocumented.
Jean baptiste denys biography
His father was an artisan who specialized in water pumps, which were seeing an increase in popularity and sophistication during the time of his birth. Denys' passion for medicine was also influenced due to his own suffering from asthma.[2]
Education
Denys obtained a bachelor's in theology at the Collège des Grassins [fr] and a medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine in Montpellier.
Denys’ ambition drew him to attempt a career in Paris, but the university's poor reputation made him an outsider to the Paris's wealthy scientific elite.
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