- First name
- Richard
- Last name
- Lower
- Date of Birth
- 1631
- Date of Death
- 1691
- Born in
- St. Tudy
- Died in
- London
The physician and physiologist Richard Lower was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1667. A follower of William Harvey, he enjoyed a reputation for his work on experimental blood transfusion in dogs and in a human being. Lower, who was befriended by Boyle, Wren and Hooke, and particularly earned a reputation for his second book Tractatus de Corde (Amsterdam, 1669), a work on the heart and lungs and blood transfusion. See: ODNB; Donovan, 2004.