Name some things about the 1668 Transfusion Affair, in which Jean Denis’ xenotransfusion experiments led to a long-standing French ban on blood transfusion. For 10 points each:
[10e] The affair became a proxy war over this philosopher’s thought, which was banned at court. He worked at the court of Kristina of Sweden and proposed animal automatism in Discourse on the Method.
ANSWER: Rene Descartes
[10m] Denis’ opponents sided with the Paris Faculty of Medicine, whose anti-transfusionist ideas were based in its categorical denial of blood circulation, despite having been recently proved by this English physician.
ANSWER: William Harvey
[10h] Denis was trained at this city’s Descartes-friendly medical school, where Paul Joseph Barthez promoted vitalism. This city names Francis I’s Ordonnance requiring all published books to be first deposited at his library.
ANSWER: Montpellier [accept University of Montpellier; Université de Montpellier; accept Ordonnance de Montpellier]
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