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Arteries and viens
Claudius Galenus proves arteries have blood inside and they are seperate from veins. Galen finds that blood is formed in the liver -
Period: 130 to
History of Blood
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Feb 20, 1200
Pulmonary Circulation
Ibn al-Nafis discovers and describes the flow of blood to and from the lungs -
Feb 20, 1553
Blood's Pathway
Michael Serventussay blood goes from one side of the heart to the other through the lungs instead of through the wall between the ventricles -
Vein valves
Fabricius is the first to have drawings of vein valves. -
Circulating Blood
William Harvey explains that blood circulates the body and is pumped by the heart. -
Red Blood cells
Jan Swammerdam is the first person to see and describe red blood cells. -
Transfusion
Jean-Baptiste Denis transfuses nine ounce of lamb's blood to a teenage boy suffering from a fever -
Red Blood Cell Size
Unaware of Swammrdam's work, Anton van Leeuwenhoek provides precise description of red blood cells and says their size is approximately 25,000 tmes smaller than a fine grain of sand. -
Human to human blood transfusion
A footnote of a medical journal credits Philip Syng Phyick with performing the first human to human blood transfusion. -
Blood Tranfusion fails
James Blundell performs the fst recored human to human blood trnsfusion. The patient dies after showing signs of improvement -
Three Main Blood Groups
Karl Landsteinr publishes a paper about his dicovery of three main human blood groups- A,B, and C. C is later changed to O. -
Fourth Blood Group
Alfred van Decastello and Adriano Sturli identify a fourth blood group- AB -
Checking Blood Types
Dr. Ludvig Hekton recommends checking donor and recipitates' for compatibility. 128 blood transfusions occur without transfusion reactions. -
Sodium Citrate
Almost simultaneously, Albert Hustin and Luis Agote discover that adding sodium citrate prevents blood from clotting. -
Optimum Sodium Citrate
Dr. Richard Lewisohn formulates optimum concetration o sodium citrate to be put in blood and once treated, it can be refrigeratted for a few days -
Citrate Glucose
Francis Peyton Rous an J.R. Turner develop a citrate glucoe solution that allows blood to be stored for a few weeks -
Blood Depot
Dr. Oswald Lewisohn stores type O blood with citrate glucose solution and is the first blood depot -
Test Efficiency and collect blood
Dr. Serge Yudin is the first to test the efficiency of human blood to a cadavar. Soviets are the first to collect and store blood for transfusions. -
Modern and sterile system
Dr. Charles Drew creates a modern and highly sterile system to process, test, and store plasma for shipment -
Transfusion- transmitted hepatitis
Dr. Paul Beeson links jaundice to blood or plasma transfusions. Decriptions of transfuion-transmitted hepatitis. -
Plastic bags
Dr. Carl W. Walter develops plastic bag for blood collection -
GRID
The first case of GRID syndrome is recorded. Later renamed AIDS -
HTLV III
Dr. Robert Galo identifie the virus that causes AIDS, called HTLV III -
Blood screen test
Dozens of Americans are infected with AIDS from blood trnsfusions. The first blood screen test is developed. -
Tests
More tests are developed to screen donated blood for genetic material of viruses like HIV and HCV
