Blood-groups & Race (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Millot, J.  (Jacques) (1897-1980)

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

Pub Date: 1938

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair to Good.   Binding tight.  No marks, tears.  Upper corner of the text has an approx. 1″ bend, extends through entire 9 page pamphlet.  This was an essay (translated) in the 1937 Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution.  That hardcover was falling apart and I had this essay rebound in paperback.

Notes: Reprint.  Reprinted from Antiquity, Vol. 9, No. 36, Dec. 1935.  Blood groups were discovered by Karl Landsteiner in 1901, when he discovered that different types of blood either coagulated or didn’t when they were mixed.  Landsteiner devised the A, B, and C system (the C later became O, from the German Ohne (without, null, none).  Landsteiner won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1930 for this work.  This pamphlet is a straightforward discussion of Landsteiner’s work, how blood chemistry works (why we can transfuse different types of blood, why we can’t use animal blood), and how different areas and populations (genetics, migration, and environment) have higher concentrations of one blood variant than another.   No eugenics here.