Summary Of Blood Work By Holly Tucker

Blood Work
A Tale of Medicine & Murder in the Scientific Revolution
Katelyn Bowles
May 8, 2016
Anatomy and Physiology

Bowles 1 Introduction
"Blood Work", by Holly Tucker is "A Tale of Medicine & Murder in the Scientific Revolution." The book is a story about Holly Tucker's adventure on trying to find out who actually murdered a madman from Paris hundreds of years ago. that goes by the name, Antoine Mauroy. Today, Mauroy's death interests Tucker and she wants to get to the bottom of this and see who is to blame for his unexpected death.
Key Idea 1
The procedure that was used to experiment with played a major role in this book. The winter of 1667, it was one of the

Three hundred and thirty-four years later in the future, Carl Landsteiner, a Viennese doctor, performed a very simple experiment with blood in 1901. During his experiment, Landsteiner noticed "clotting in some samples of mixed blood and not others". (Tucker, 10) Landsteiner separated his samples into three groups: A, B, and C, according to how they clotted in his experiment. Today, the blood type C is known as type O blood. When Landsteiner was grouping these blood types, he happened to look over type AB. AB occurs in about 3 percent of the population. Later in 1907, two researchers, Jan Jansky in Czechoslovakia and William Lorenzo Moss in the United

The immune system plays an important role in fighting off diseases and protecting your body. Also Mauroy's reactions to the calf's blood is something we have talked about this semester because we have covered mostly all systems. The discovery of the blood types plays an important role in what we have been learning. It ties into the organ system because blood helps controls some of your organs. Mauroy's reaction to the blood probably had something to do with the different blood types and his didn't match with the calf's blood type. The calf's blood wasn't as clean either. Lastly, the discovery that air and your lungs have to do with your bloods color is very important to the world of science. Now, we know why the blood is bright red when it reaches the surface outside of the body.
Conclusion
Even though Mauroy died in the process, it's a good thing that the transfusion took place and everything happened like it did. If the past didn't happen like it did, the world of science might not be able to know as much as it does today. Holly Tucker did a great job writing this book and now people get the chance of understand how some of science played out in the past, even if it did cause