The curious distillatory, or, The art of stilling coloured liquors, spirits, oyls, &c. from vegitables[sic], animals, minerals, and metals : a thing hitherto unknown by few ; containing many experiments easy to perform, yet curious, suprizing, and useful ; relating to the production of colours, consistence, and heart, indivers bodies which are colourless, fluid, and cold ; together with several experiments upon the blood ( and its serum) of diseased persons, with divers other collateral experiment.

London : Printed by J.D. for Robert Boulter, at the Turks-head, over against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill, 1677.

"Elsholtz's book on the venous infusion of medicaments was one of the first works to deal with blood transfusion" (Morton's Medical Bibliography, Fifth Edition, Edited by Jeremy M. Norman)..

"Elsholtz was the first physician to study anthropometry and human proportion" (Morton's Medical Bibliography, Fifth Edition, Edited by Jeremy M. Norman).

"German physician who wrote an early treatise on blood transfusion in 1665" (A Dictionary of the History of Medicine, Anton Sebastian).

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