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Jan 1, 1200
Eminent Cairo
Discovers pulmonary circulation (the flow of blood through the lungs). -
Fabricius
Publishes the first drawings ow veins and their valves. -
William Harvey
Publishes his work on blood that circulates through the body. -
Jan Swammerdam
A Dutch microscopists Jan Swammerdam is the first person to observe and describe red blood cells -
Marcello Malpighi
Studied the capillary system -
Richard Lower
He is the first person to preform a blood transfusion on animals. He used a goose quill and bladder to connect a dog's jugular vein to another dog's neck artery. -
Jean Baptitse Denis
Transfused a teenagee boy's blood with a lambs successfully. -
French Parliment Bans
They ban the right to transfuse blood from animals to humans. -
Anton Van Leeunwenhoek
Figured out that the red blood cell was 25,000 times smaller than a grain of sand. -
William Hewson
Discovered that fibrogen is a key protein of clotting. -
Philip Syng Physick
Philip Syng Physick was the first person to preform a human to human blood transfusion, but it was not recorded. -
James Blundell
He preformedthe first RECORDED human blood transfusion. -
Sir William Osler
He was the first person to discover the cell fragments in bone marrow called platelets. -
Karl Landsteiner
Discovers the three main human blood types; A,B, and C which was later changed to O -
Dr. Landsteiner and his colleagues
Him and his colleagues combined the blood groups A and B to create a fourth blood type called AB. -
Reuben Ottenberg
He preformed the first cross matching blood transfusion that ended up being sucessful. -
Ludvig Hektoen
Reccomends cross-matching to a doctor about to transfuse blood. -
Albert Hustin and Luis Agote
The two scientists find out that adding sodium citrate to blood will prevent the blood from clotting. -
Richard Weil
Discovers that citrated blood can be refrigerated -
Oswald Robertson
Establishes the first blood depot during WWI. -
Percy Lane Oliver
Begins operating a home blood donor service at his home in London. -
Serge Yudin
He was the first person to do a blood transfusion with a cadaver and a live patient. -
Mayo Clinic
A group of anesthesiologists store citrated blood and use it for transfusions. -
Bernard Fantus
Creates the first "Blood Bank". -
Karl Landsteiner
Discovered the RH blood group. -
Charles Drew
Figures out that blood plasma is a viable substitute foe whole blood. -
Red Cross
The U.S. created an organization that helps civillians in war and also it was created to collect blood plasma for war effort. -
Paul Beeson
Found a disease that is transmitted rarley through blood transfusion called, transfusion transmitted hepatitis. -
Carl W. Walter
Created a plastic bag that made storaging blood more easier -
Max Perutz
Uses X-ray technology to find the structure of hemoglobin. -
DBS and FDA
Theses two organizations were created to control blood banks. -
AIDS
AIDS was discovered. -
Luc Montagnier
He and his team found the reason AIDS is around. It was because of a lymph node in the neck of an infected person. -
Robert Gallo
He announces he found the reason for AIDS. -
ELISA Test
The U.S. lisenced all the blood banks to test all patiens for SIDS before doing a blood transfusion. -
More Tests
More diseases have started spreading around the U.S. and even more tests start to come into effect.
