True blood

BLOOD

By JMONEY$
  • Jan 1, 1250

    Ibn al-Nafis

    Ibn al-Nafis
    Ibn al-Nafis a physician from Cairo finds and describes the pulmonary system.
  • Jan 1, 1553

    Michael Servetus

    Spanish theoligist and physician Michael Servetus is burned at a stake for disagreeing with Galens theory that blood flows through the wall between the ventricles and instead thinking blood flows through the lungs.
  • Jan 1, 1555

    DE FABRICA

    Andreas Vesalius takes a stab at Galen in his book that was based upon human anatomy, DE FABRICA.

  • Vein Valves

    Vein Valves
    Fabricius an anatomist from Padua draws the first drawings of vein valves.

  • WILLIAM HARVEY

    WILLIAM HARVEY
    In 1628, William Harvey published a book explaining how blood circulates throughout the body and is pumped by the heart.

  • RED BLOOD CELLS

    RED BLOOD CELLS
    Jan Swammerdam was the first person to discover and describe red blood cells.

  • Capillary system

    Capillary system
    Italian anatomist Marcello Malpighi discover the capillary system.

  • Richard Lower

    Richard Lower performs first blood transfusion on animals.

  • Jean Baptiste-Denis

    Jean Baptiste-Denis performs a blood transfusion on a teenage boy and it is successful.

  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek desribes red blood cells as 25,000 times smaller than a grain of sand.

  • Blood Coagulation

    Blood Coagulation
    British anatomist William Hewson finishes his research on blood coagulation specifically detailing the clotting process..

  • William Hewson

    William Hewson writes a book describing his research on blood coaguation and his discovery of fibrogen.

  • Philip Syng Physick

    Philip Syng Physick is credited with the first human to human blood transfusion.

  • James Blundell

    James Blundell is credited with the first human to human blood transfusion that was published.

  • James Blundell

    James Blundell
    James Blundell, a British obstetrician and physiologist does first ever recorded human to human blood transfusion but his work wasnt published.

  • Platelets

    Platelets
    Sir William Osler findds out that small cell fragments from bone marrow make up majority of blood clots in blood vessels.

  • Karl Landsteiner

    Karl Landsteiner the human bodies three main blood groups A, B and O.

  • New Blood Group

    Dr.Karl Landsteiners fellow scientists who worked with him found a new blood group AB.

  • Dr.Richard Lewisohn

    Dr.Richard Lewisohn comes up with the perfect mixture of sodium citrate that can be mixed with donor blood that will prevent coagulation and wont harm the person recieveing the blood.

  • Dr.Richard Weil

    Dr.Richard Weil figures out that citrated blood can be stored in refrigerators then used and still work.

  • Percy Lane Oliver

    Percy Lane Oliver the first blood donor service operating from his home in London.

  • Soviets

    Soviets are the first to store and collect blood for transfusions in multiple hospitals.

  • Transfusions

    Transfusions
    Dr.Serge Yudin is the first to test cadaver blood on a human and finds out it is successful when he resuscitates a man who slit his wrists.

  • Mobile Blood Service

    First mobile blood service established in Madrid by Dr.Norman Bethune.

  • BLOOD BANKS

    BLOOD BANKS
    Starts a blood collection, donation, and preservation facility in Chicago and called it a "blood bank", the first of many to be created.

  • Dr.Isidor Ravdin

    Dr.Isidor Ravdin succesfully treats pearl harbor victims with albumin which increases blood volume.

  • Association of Blood Banks

    Association of Blood Banks is formed by a national network of blood banks.

  • Dr.Carl W. Walter

    Dr.Carl W. Walter was a trained surgeon who developed the first plastic bag to store blood in.

  • Dr.Max Perutz

    Dr.Max Perutz discovers hemoglobin by using x-ray crystallography.

  • AIDS

    First cases of AIDS are reported.

  • Dr.Bruce Evatt

    Hemophiliacs begin to develop AIDS and Dr.Bruce Evatt suggests that AIDS is ot only prevalent in gay men, he suggests that it is blood borne.

  • Dr.Robert Gallo

    Dr.Robert Gallo finds the virus that causes AIDS and names it HTLV III.

  • ELISA Test

    The ELISA test was used by blood banks and plasma centers to detect whether or not HIV antibodies were present in the donated blood.

  • Blood tests

    More test were created to check for diseases in blood.

  • Blood Clotting

    Albert Hustin and Luis Agote find out that putting sodium citrate in blood will prevent clotting.