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  <dc:title>Robert McDonnell's blood transfusion apparatus</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Robert McDonnell's blood transfusion apparatus made by Thompson &amp; O'Neill, Dublin. McDonnell carried out the first human to human blood transfusion in Ireland in April 1865 on a 14 year old girl called Mary Anne Dooley in Jervis Street Hospital. McDonnell received his LRCSI in 1851 and became President of RCSI in 1877. </dc:description>
  <dc:date>1865</dc:date>
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