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Jan 1, 1553
Early Ideas
Michael Servetus thought that blood flows from one side of the heart to the other like through the lungs instead of through the wall between the ventricles which went against Galen's theory, he is burned at the stake for denying the Trinity. -
EXERCITATIO ANATOMICA DE MOTU CORDIS ET SANGUINIS IN ANIMALIBUS
William Harvey publishes his masterwork EXERCITATIO ANATOMICA DE MOTU CORDIS ET SANGUINIS IN ANIMALIBUS, which he explains inside that blood circulates within the body and is pumped by the heart. -
Red Blood Cell
Jan Swamrdam was the first microscopist to decribe and see red blood cells. -
Blood Fusion
Richard Lower was the first on record to preform a blood transfustion in an animal. -
Transfustion
Jean-Baptiste Denis transfued a teen boy suffering from an infection with nine ounces of lambs blood. -
Transfustion Banned
Dr. Denis sued Antoine Mauroy's husband for destroying her reputation. -
EXERCITATIO ANATOMICA
William Harvey publised a book and it talked about the blood circulates within the body and is pumped by the heart. -
EXPERIMENTAL ENQUIRY INTO THE PROPERTIES OF THE BLOOD
William Hewson details his research on blood coagulation, and isolating a substance from plasma he calls "coagulable lymph." also known as fibrogen. -
Human-to-Human Transfustion
Philip Syng Physick was the first person known to preform human-to-human trasfustion, off record. -
Recorded Human-to-Human
James Blundell was the first person on record to preform humanto-human transfusion. -
Blood Types
Karl Landsteiner published a paper on thre three main bloo types: A, B, and C which he later changes to O. -
New Bllod Group
Alfred Von Decastello and Adriano Sturli found another type of blood group called: AB -
Dr. Ludvig Hektoen's recommendations
Dr. Hektoen recommends checking the blood or paitents and donors so ther is no cross matching during transfusion. -
Two different scientist, One discovery
Almost at the same time, Albert Hustin and Luis Agote found out that adding sodiun citrate to blood will prevent blood clotting. -
The Rockefeller Institution
Francics Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner made a citrate-glucose solution that keeps blood stored or fresh for a couple of weeks. -
First Blood Donation Service
Percy Lane Olive was the leader of the first blood donor sevice, and it was at his house in London. -
Hospitals Transfusions
Dr. Serge Yudin was the first to test the efficancy of transuing human blood with cadver blood. He saved a man who attempted suiced and the Soviets established a network to collect blood to use in transfusions at the hospital. -
Blood-Transfusion Service
Federico Duran-Jorda made the Barcelona Blood-Transfusion Service which collects blood, tests it, puts it in blood groups, and stores it in bottles under refrigeration. -
Babies
Drs. Philip Levine and R.E. Stetson discover an unknown antibody in the blood of a female who's given birth to a stillborn child -
Rh Blood
Drs. Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener find the Rh blood group through experimenting with the blood cells of Rhesus monkey. -
New Inventions
Dr. Carl W. Walter develops a plastic bag to collect and hold blood. -
Red Blood Carries Stuff
Through the use of X-ray crystallography Dr. Max Perutz is able to define the structure of hemoglobin, the protein within red blood cells that carries oxygen. -
Bad Blood
The first cases of a syndrome called GRID (Gay-related Immunodeficiency Disease), due to its aboundence in gay men, are reported. It is lnow known as AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). -
Learning About AIDS
Researchers at Dr. Luc Montagnier's lab isolate the virus that causes AIDS. They later located it in the swollen lymph node in the neck of a Parisian. -
ELISA TEST
After a lot of people were infected with AIDS from blood transfusions, they came up with the ELISA test to help detect AIDS in a donors blood stream.