Magnus Pegel (or Pegelius or Pegelow) (15 May 1547 – 1619) was a German doctor and mathematician.[1] Pegel was born in Rostock in Pomerania/Germany and was one of the first authors to write (in 1604) about the theory of blood transfusions.[2][3][4][5] He died at Stettin.
- ^ "Pegel, Magnus", Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
- ^ F. J. Cole (1921), "The history of anatomical injections", in Charles Singer (ed.), Studies in the history and method of science, Vol II
- ^ J Greenwalt (August 1995), "The history and future of transfusion medicine", Transfusion Today (23), ISSN 1015-3276
- ^ Theophilus Parvin (1874), "Address in obstetrics diseases of women and children", Transactions of the American Medical Association, American Medical Association
- ^ Douglas W. Huestis; Joseph R. Bove; Shirley Busch (1970), Practical blood transfusion