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Feb 19, 1200
Pulmonary Circulation Discovery
Cairo discovers blood circulation going to and from the lungs. -
Circulation Publication
William Harvey publishes his book on circulation and how the blood is circulated and the heart pumps it through the body. -
Blood Cell Gazing
Jan Swammerdam is able to see red blood cells. He is considered the first person to have done this. -
Capillary Viewing
Marcello Malpighi is believed to be the first person to see capillary system. He uses the rudimentary microscope to view the time vessels that connects veins and arteries. -
Animal Blood Tranfusion
The first recorded blood transfusion of animals is performed by Richard Lower who uses a syringe made of goose parts and he tests on dogs. -
Teenage Transfusion
Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denis transuses nine ounces of lambs blood into a teenage boy who suffers from a fever. He does this by connecting the carotid artery with male's vein in his forearm and the boy didn't die. -
Coagulation Findings
William Hewson is a british anatomist who describes his research on blood coagulation and arresting blood clots. He also manages to isolates a substance from plasma. -
First Recorded Human-to-Human Blood Transfusion
A British obstetrician and physiologist James Blundell uses a syringe to perfrom the first recorded human-to-human blood transfusion on a patient with internal bleeding. The patient passed away after showing some signs of getting better. -
Discovering Platelets
Sir William Osler looked into the bone marrow and saw little cell fragments that we call platelets. -
The 3 Main Blood Type Discovery
Karl Landsteiner, an Aussie physician, pulishes a paper on his discovery of 3 main blood types. He writes how he's come to discover this and how they are diiferent which is really confusing. -
Discovery of a 4th Blood Type
Colleagues of Dr. Landsteiner, Alfred von Decastello and Adrian Sturli discovered a fourth blood type they called AB. -
Smart Proposition
Dr Ludvig Hektoen is the first recorded person to propose that they cross match before doing transfusions. -
Smart Decision
Dr Reuben Ottenberg is the first recorded person to do a cross matching of blood before transfusion. This practice was continued and had such a high success rate that it virtually eliminated transfusion reactions. -
Stopping Blood Clots
Almost at the same time Albert Hustin and Luis Agote discover how to keep the blood from clotting by adding sodium cirate. -
Transfusion Storage Discovery
Dr. Richard Weil makes an amazing discovery when he finds that citrated blood can be refrigerated for a few days and still be successfully transfused into a person's body. -
Building onto Discovery of Blood Storage
At the Rockefeller Institute Frances Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner created a way to store blood for weeks with it still being able to be successfully transfused. They created a cirate-glucose solution. -
Blood Depot
The first blood depot is created by Dr. Oswald Robertson during WWI when casualties were many. He does this by storing type O blood using the solution created by Rous and Turner. -
Hospitals Finally Start Transfusing
Soviets are the first to have hospitals that store blood that is used in transfusions. -
Durable Plasma
Edwin Coln creates a more durable plasma from proteins, chemicals, and such. -
First Treatment by Albumin
The first people to be treated with albumin are Pearl Harbor victims and they are treated by Dr. Isidor Ravdin. He figured out that albumin works to increase blood volume. -
First Meeting of America Assocation of Blood Banks
Their first meeting was in November and was created by Red Cross. -
First Case of GRID (Gay-related Immunodeficiency) Reported
It is called GRIDS because it was more common in gay males. It was renamed as "Acquired Immunodeficiency". -
Location of AIDs Found
Luc Montagnier finds the virus in a swollen lymph node in the neck of a Parisian patient. They then label the virus a lymphadenopathy-associated virus or LAV. -
Screening for Diseases
The ELISA test is licensed in the U.S. after dozens of Americans become infected with AIDs through transfusions, The ELISA test is designed to detect AIDs in a donor's blood and is used by blood banks and plasma centers. -
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Advancing Technology
More sensitive tests are developed to see more broadly. They are made to show more blood diseases than just AIDs.