History Of Blood

By Madii Keenan
  • Feb 22, 1200

    Pulmonary Circulation

    Eminent Cairo discovers and describes pulmonary circulation.

  • Valves In Veins

    Fabricius publishes his work on the valves in veins, which have the first drawings of veins.

  • Red Blood Cells

    Jan Swammerdam, thought to be the first to observe and describe red blood cells.

  • Capillary System

    Marcello Malpighi observes the capillary system.

  • Red Blood Cells Size

    Anton Van Leevwenhoek approximates the size of red blood cells. (25,000 times smaller than a fine grain of sand.

  • Fibrogen

    William Hewson masters clotting and isolating a substance from plasma now known as fibrogen.

  • Blood Transfusion

    James Blundell performs the first human-to-humn blood transfusion.

  • Clotting

    Sir William Osler observes that small cell fragments from bone marrow make up the bulk of clots in blood vessels.

  • Blood Types

    Karl Landsteiner discovered the three main blood types.

  • Fourth Blod Group

    Landsteiner's colleagues identify a fourth blood group.

  • Clots

    Albert Hustin and Huis Agote discover that adding sodium citrate to blood will prevnt clotting.

  • Storage

    Francis Peyton Rous and J.R Turner develop a citrate-glucose solution that allows blood to be stored for a few days.

  • Blood Depot

    Oswald Robertson establishes the first blood depot

  • Donor

    Percy Lane Oliver operating a blood donor service at his house.

  • Cadavar

    Dr. Serge Yudin tested the efficiancy of transfusing humans with cadavar blood.

  • Citrated Blood

    Group of anesthesiologists are the first to begin storing citrated blood and utilizing it for hospitals.

  • blood bank

    Bernard Fantus creates blood bank

  • units

    Red Cross collect 13 million units of blood plasma for victims of Pearl Harbor

  • Blood Collection

    Dr. Carl W. Walter, develops a plastic bag for the collection of blood.

  • Advanced Clotting

    Kenneth M. Brinkhous and Edward Shanbrom redissolved vast amounts of cyro, which is clottiong powers are 100x stronger than raw plasma.

  • Clotting Power

    Discoveries that cryoprecipitates have better clotting power than plasma.

  • Health Issues

    Machine established that find's infected donors with hepatitis B.

  • More Health Issues

    First cases of Aids established.

  • Isolation

    Scientists Isolate the aids virus

  • Health

    A series of sensative tests developed to help find infected donors.