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William Harvey explains that blood is pumped by the heart and circulate through the body
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Jan Swammerdam is said to be the 1st to describe red blood cells
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Marcello Malpighi observers the Capillary system
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Richard Lower does the 1st recorded blood transfusion (with animals)
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek makes a better description of red blood cells
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Philip Syng Physick is said to be the first in preforming a human to human blood transfusion (work wasn't published)
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the 1st recorded Human to Human blood transfusion was done by James Blundell
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Sir William Osler discovers that platelets (not named at the time) make up the bluk of blood clots
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Karl Landsteine discovers the 3 blood types A,B,C (later to be called "O")
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Alfred von Decastello and Adriano Sturli (Landsteiner's colleagues) discover a new blood type... AB
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Dr.Reuben Ottenburg prefoms the 1st cross matchin transfusion. Does this for 7 years and does it 128 time without failure
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Dr.Richard Weil notes that blood can be refrigerated (only a few days) then be rehosted
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Francis Peyton Rous & J.R. Turner creates a solution that allows blood to be stored for weeks at a time
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Dr.Serge Yudin is the 1st to test transfusing cadaver blood
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Drs. Philip Levine and R.E. Stetson uncover a antibody in the blood of a women
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Drs.Karl Landsteiner & Alexander Wiener identify Levine's finding as Anti-Rh after testing the cells of monkeys
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Dr.Charles Drew creates a system to test, process, and store plasma for Red Cross to deliver durning a time of crisis
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Dr.Carl W. Walter revloutionizes the collection of blood with his invention of the plastic bag (now called bllod bag)
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Dr. Max Perutz uses X-ray crystallography to unravel the protein Hemoglobin
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GRID or Gay-related Immunodeficiency Disease was started to be repoted in Gay males. Was later renamed Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome od AIDS
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Dr. Bruce Evatt thinks that the virus is blood borne
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Researches in France are able to isolate the virus that causes AIDS
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Dr. Robert Gallo announces that he's identified the virus that causes AIDS names it human T-cell lymphotropic virus
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the ELISA test is licensed by the U.S. Gov. after dozens were infected with AIDS. the test screened the body to detect presence and/or absence of HIV antibodies
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more tests are developed and implemented tolook for blood infectious diseases:
