Description
Autograph Latin inscription, signed “Jas. Blundell”. A single page from the Autograph Book of Hugh Welch Diamond (1809-1886) known as “the father of psychiatric photography”. 25 July 1839. James Blundell (1790 – 1878), obstetrician who performed the first successful transfusion of human blood to a patient for treatment of a haemorrhage.