Question
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]
<Emmett Laurie, European History>
Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (South Central) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 67% | 33% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Columbia B | UMD B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell A | UMD B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| RIT | JHU B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell B | John Jay | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| JHU A | NYU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia A | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |