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Feb 18, 1250
Mid 1200's
Eminent Cairo discoveres and explains how blood flow comes and goes through the lungs. -
Fabricius
Fabricius publishes the first drwings of vein valves, -
William Harvey
Harvey publishes a book about the circulation of blood through the body and how the heart pumps the blood. -
Swammerdam
Jan Swammerdam was first to describe and observe reb blood cells. -
Marcello Malpighi
Malpighi looks more into the vessels that conect arteries and veins. -
Richard Lower
Lower is the first do do and record of an animal blood transfusion. -
Jean-Baptiste Denis
Denis does a blood transfusion on a teenage boy and a lamb. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Anton van Leeuwenhoek went intp more detail about red blood cells. -
James Blundell
James Blundell performs first human blood transfusion. -
Sir William Osler
Osler observes platelets. -
Karl Landsteiner
Landsteiner determines the 3 blood types. (A,B,C which is later known as O) -
Karl Landsteiner
Landsteiner and his colleagues later introduce the blood type AB. -
Albert Hustin
Dr. Hustin discovers that adding sodium to blood circulation can prevent clotting. -
Francis Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner
Peyton and Turner introduce a solution that allows blood to be stored for longer and still be effective when used. -
Osswald Robertson
Robertson establishes first blood depot. -
Percy Lane Oliver
Oliver starts his own blood donation service. -
The Soviets
The Soviets are the firsts to make places for collecting and storing blood for hospitals and transfusions. -
Anesthesiologists
The group starts putting stored blood to use in hospitals. -
Federico Duran-Jorda
Duran-Jorda makes a blood service that collects tests, and stores blood by blood group. -
Dr. Bernard Fantus
Dr.Fantus introduces the term "blood bank" -
Edwin Cohn
Cohn invents a way to seperate proteins in plasmas. -
Charles Drew
Dr. Drew makes a system to process, test and store plasma for shipments across water. -
American Red Cross
First civilian blood donor center opens. -
Dr. Paul Beeson
Beeson provides a description of transfusion-transmitted hepatitis. -
Community blood banks
The blood banks get together and form the American Association of Blood Banks. -
American Association of Blood Banks
AABB first meeting in Dallas. -
Dr. Carl W. Walter
Walter deveops plastic bags for blood. -
Dr. Max Perutz
Perutz discovers the structure of Hemoglobin. -
Kenneth M. Brinkhous and Edward Shanbrom
Shanbrom and Brinkhous make Factor VIII highly concentrated. -
Dr. Baruch Blumberg
Dr. Blumberg dicovers something that makes antibodies grow on Hepatitis B. -
AIDS
First case of GRID or AIDS is recorded. -
Bruce Evatt,
Evatt introduces his suspicions of GRID is blood borne. -
Dr. Luc Montagnier
The Dr.'s lab finds the virus that causes AIDS. -
ELISA test
A test is made to find out wether or not the blood that is beings used for transfusions are positive for HIV or not. -
Reuben Ottenberg
Ottenberg does first transfusion with cross-matching.
