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Period: Feb 21, 1000 to
Status Quo Under Fire
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Jan 1, 1200
Eminent Cairo
Eminent Cairo discovers and describes pulmonary circulation which is the flow of blood to and from the lungs. -
Feb 21, 1553
Michael Servetus
Michael Servetus suggested that blood flows from one side of the heart to the other by the lungs . He was burned for Trinity! -
Feb 21, 1555
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius criticized Galen for his work on human anatomy. -
Fabricius
Fabricius is ananatomist from Padua that publishes his work on valves in veins. -
William Harvey
William Harvey publishes his masterwork on the movement of the heart and blood in animals. -
Jan Swammerdam
Jan Swammerdam is the first person to observe and describe red blood cells. -
Marcello Malpighi
Marcello Malpighi observes the capillary system which is a bunch of vessels that connect the arteries and the veins. -
Richard Lower
Richard Lower is the first recorded man to do a blood transfusion in animals. -
Jean-Baptiste Denis
Jean-Baptiste Denism is a French physician that tranfused a teenage boy with lamb blood. -
Dr. Denis
Dr. Denis sues Antoine Mauroy's widow because she is hurting his reputation -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Anton van Leeuwenhoek provides and shows a more precise description of red blood cells. -
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Discovery and Exploration
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William Hewson
William Hewson published a book that shows his research on blood coagulation -
Philip Syng
Philip Syng does the first human-to-human blood transfusio -
James Blundel
James Blundel performs the first recorded human-to-human blood transfusion -
Sir William Osler
Sir William Osler discovers platelets. -
Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner publishes his work about the discovery of the three main human blood . -
Dr. Landsteiner's
Dr. Landsteiner's finds the cause of agglutination in the red cells of both groups -
Dr. Ludvig Hektoen
Dr. Ludvig Hektoen starts to recommend checking the blood of the donors. -
Albert Hustin and Luis Agote
Albert Hustin and Luis Agote have discovered that adding sodium citrate to blood will prevent it from clotting. -
Dr. Richard Lewisohn,
Dr. Richard Lewisohn conjures up a formula that optimizes concentration of sodium citrate that can be mixed with donor blood to prevent itmfrom clotting up. -
Francis Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner
Francis Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner made and developed a citrate glucose solution that allows blood to be stored. -
Dr. Oswald Robertson
Dr. Oswald Robertson establishes the first blood depot by collecting and storing type O blood, -
Percy Lane Oliver
Percy Lane Oliver starts offering blood donor services. -
Dr. Serge Yudin
Dr. Serge Yudin is first person the figure out the efficacy of transfusing humans with cadaver blood. -
Anesthesiologists
Anesthesiologists at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester are the first to begin storing citrated blood and then using it for transfusion. -
Federico Duran-Jorda
Federico Duran-Jorda preserved and stored bottle blood and shipped it to the front line hospitals during the Spanish Civil War. -
Dr. Bernard Fantus
Dr. Bernard Fantus started a blood donation, collection, and preservation facility in Chicago, IL. -
Philip Levine and R.E. Stetson
Philip Levine and R.E. Stetson discovered an unknown antibody in the blood of a women. -
Drs. Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener
Drs. Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener both discovered the Rh group. -
Edwin Cohn
Edwin Cohn, a Harvard biochemist, invented a method to separate out different proteins. -
Dr. Isidor Ravdin
Dr. Isidor Ravdin successfully treats victims of the Pearl Harbor attack thanks to the American Red Cross. -
Dr. Paul Beeson
Dr. Paul Beeson successfully describes the tranfusion-transmitted hepatitis.. -
American Association of Blood Banks
American Association of Blood Banks is a national network of blood banks. -
Dr. Carl W. Walter
Dr. Carl W. Walter invents a plastic bag for the collection of blood -
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New Challenges
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Dr. Robert Gallo
Dr. Robert Gallo discovered the virus that causes AIDS, which he calls human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV III).
