the first pled transition to equates in the 17th century as a response to blood circulation by william harvey and then people wanted to test the idea so they started to put plywood liquor, booze, opium, of no, no water coming into the veins of dogs the ada is blood of early medicine you think lancet and bloodletting. it made no sense to the mind they had to test the idea and they tested the earliest predecessors lycopod critiques that blood did not circulate but a product of the digestive system. went into the system it was purified by the liver and it may go one way trip up to the heart and the blood was burned off. when harvey came up with the adr that the blood circulated, it was revolutionary. they started to reject all those liquors into the veins of animals. because the second was of butcher to see what would have been and the third is the transfusion of the calf blood they thought it would slow down the tumors. he died. no surprise. what interested me specifically the court case all said the transfusion is was called up on murder charges the first example of malpractice. of the french

century, specifically as a response in many ways to the discovery of blood circulation in 1628 by william harvey. from there people wanted to test the idea of blood circulation, so they started putting fluids -- all types of things, liquor, booze, opium, milk, water -- into the veins of dogs. because the idea in the 17th century is that blood -- and if you think about early medicine, right? the first thing you think about is leeches, right? and you also think about lance ets and blood let'sing, so the very point of putting blood in made no sense to the early 7th century mind. -- 17th century mind. but they needed to test harvey's idea. the way they tested it was testing the earlier predecessors who believed that blood, of course, did not circulate, but rather was the product of the digestive system. so you ate food, it went into the stomach, it got purified into the liver, into the red-gold of blood, and then it made a one-way trip up to the heart where the heart served as a furnace, blood was burned off. you breathe out to get rid of the fumes. so when harvey came up with the idea that blood ac

i was speaking with william harvey, the president of hampton university which historically a black colleges well, what's the big deal? go out and get an i.d. i wanted to throw that out there as you were working with black voters to make sure people get registered to vote make sure you hit up the historically black colleges and universities throughout the country. but my question that i wanted to pose to you as well is when we think about the -- atrocity that we see happening now with voter suppression, african-american voters across the country, it leads me back to the question of -- which is -- do we as african-americans do ourself as disservice by overwhelmingly self-identifying as democrats rather than -- rather than deciding that we should either register to vote as republicans or self-identify as independents so that both the republican and the democratic party have incentive to go out and prove that they -- they have the best interests of african-americans at heart and give us a reason to vote for them. >> well, i think -- i think that -- let me deal with your first question first. i