CHAILLOU, Recherches de l'origine et du mouvement du sang, 1675

First edition.
Jacques Chaillou, a physician from Angers, was one of the first to introduce Harvey's discoveries on blood circulation in France. Jacques Chaillou began his medical studies in Angers in the 1650s, a time when medical discoveries abounded: in 1628, William Harvey published his Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in animalibus in Frankfurt, often considered the first work to accurately describe blood circulation. It was in this context that Jacques Chaillou, before obtaining his doctorate, went to Paris and then Bordeaux to learn about the new discoveries, where he became a professor in 1663. He returned some time later to settle in Angers. In 1664, he published his first treatise on the question of sanguinification, which is reproduced here at the beginning of our edition, and he continued his work on blood, which he described in his Recherches.