BLOOD

By troy_schmidthergert
  • 300

    300BCE public dissection

    300BCE public dissection
    In Egypt the first public dissection of human cadavers was done by Herophilus and Chlecadon. Proved that arteries were larger than veins and carried blood.
  • 350

    350BCE structure of the heart

    350BCE structure of the heart
    Aristotle found that te heart was centrlly located in the body. Through dissections he also found that the heart consisted of three chambers.
  • 400

    400BCE Hippocrates

    Due to the ideas of Empedocles, Hippocrates suggestes that the body is made of blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile.
  • 500

    500BCE arteries and veins are dissimilar

    500BCE arteries and veins are dissimilar
    A Greek who did alot of animal dissections, found that arteries and veins are dissimilar.
  • Feb 18, 1250

    pulmonary circulation

    pulmonary circulation
    Cairo physician and author described the pulmonary circulation.
  • Feb 18, 1553

    Michael Servetus

    Suggested that blood flowed from one side of the heart to the other through the lungs.

  • first drawings of of vein valves

    first drawings of of vein valves
    Fabricius published his work on valves in the veins. Provided the first drawings of valves in he veins.

  • EXERCITATIO ANATOMICA DE MOTU CORDIS ET SANGUINIS IN ANIMALIBUS

    William Harvey explained how blood circulates through th body and is pumped by the heart.

  • Jan Swammerdam

    Dutch microscopist is believed to be the first to observe and describe red blood cells.

  • 1661 Marcello Malpighi

    1661 Marcello Malpighi
    Marcello Malpighi uses a rudimentary microscope to view the capillary system. He notices vessels connect arteries and veins.

  • Richard Lower

    Richard Lower performs the first blood transfusion in animals.He connected the dog's jugular vein to the neck artery of the second dog.

  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek
    Anton van Leeuwenhoek describes red blood cells 25,000 times smaller than a grain of sand.

  • William Hewson

    William Hewson researched blood coaglation. He found that fibrogen is the key to blood clotting.

  • james blundell

    James Blundell performs the first human blood transfusion. He injects the patient after internal bleeding.

  • Sir William Osler

    Sir William Osler observes small cell fragments from the bone marrow create clots from blood vessels. These are called platelets.

  • Karl Landsteiner

    Karl Landsteiner discovers that there are three differnt types of blood. He calls them A, B, and C, which later changes to O.

  • Alfred von Decastello and Adriano Sturli

    Alfred von Decastello and Adriano Sturli find a new blood type. Ther is a combination of blood type A and B.

  • Albert Hustin and Luis Agote

    Albert Hustin and Luis Agote discover that adding citrate to the blood will prevent clotting.

  • blood keeping

    blood keeping
    Francis Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner discovered that a citrate-glucose soution that allows blood to be stored for weeks.

  • WW1 donations

    WW1 donations
    Oswald Robertson stored type O blood in citrate-glucose for casualties in WWI

  • blood donation

    blood donation
    Percy Lane Oliver began a blood donor service out of his home. He had volunteers to donate blood.

  • blood transfusion

    DR. Serge Yudin was the first to transfuse humans with cadaver blood.

  • blood bank

    blood bank
    Bernard Fantus created the term "blood bank" to describe blood donation.

  • stillborns

    Philip Levine and R.E. Stetson discover an unknown antibody in the blood of a women giving birth to a stillborn.

  • Hemophilia

    The blood product cryoprecipitate is developed to treat bleeds in people with hemophilia.

  • Butterfly needle

    Butterfly needle
    The “butterfly” needle and intercath are developed, making IV access easier and safer.

  • Hemoglobin structure

    Using X-ray crystallography Dr. Max Perutz identified the structure of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen.

  • plasma

    Dr. Judith Pool studied slowly thawed frozen plasma and observed some interesting properties. She found that the plasma had greater clotting power than normal plasma.

  • FDA control of blood banks

    FDA control of blood banks
    The secretary of health found it necessary to transfer the regulation of the blood banking industry to the federal institute, the FDA. Because of this many tests were mandated by the FDA.

  • GRID

    The GRID (gay-related immunodeficiency disease) was first reported among gay men. This was later renamed as AIDS.

  • new theory on GRID

    Dr. Bruce Evatt found that even hemophiliacs were acquiring GRID. He then developed the theory that the sydnrome may be blood borne.

  • AIDS isolated

    At a lab in France the AIDS causing virus was isolated by researchers. It was found in the swollen lymph node of an AIDS victim.

  • AIDS

    Dr. Robert Gallo of the National Institute of Health found the virus that caused AIDS. He called it the HTLV III (human T-cell lymphotrophic virus).

  • ELISA test

    The first blood screening test is performed due to the spread of AIDS due to blood transfusions. The test is adopted world-wide in order to control the spread of AIDS.

  • Hepatitis

    Hepatitis
    Screen tests were implemented to find Hepatitis