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Feb 21, 1200
Eminent Cairo
Eminent Cairo physician and Ibn al-Nafis discovers and describes pulmonary circulation -- the flow of blood to and from the lungs. -
Jan Swammerdam
Jan Swammerdam was the first person to describe red blood cells -
England
In England, Richard Lower performs the first recorded blood transfusion in animals -
Philip Syng Physick
Philip Syng preformed the first human blood transfusion. -
Karl Landsteinel
published a paper detaling his discovery of three main human blood groups, groups A,B,C but C is now O. -
Dr. Landstein
Dr. Landsteins co workers Alfred von Decastello identified a 4th blood group called AB. -
New York
At Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, Dr. Reuben Ottenberg performs the first transfusion using cross matching -
Dr. Ludvig
Dr. Ludvig Hektoen of Chicago thinks checking the blood of donors and recipients for signs of cross matching before the transfusion -
Dr. Richard Leuisohn
Richard Leuisohn formulates something with sodium citrate that can be mixed with blood. -
Rockefeller
At the Rockefeller Institute in New York, Francis Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner develop a citrate-glucose solution. -
Percy Lane Oliver
Percy Lane Oliver starts operating a blood donor service out of his home in London -
March 23
On March 23, at the Sklifosovsky Institute in Moscow, Dr. Serge Yudin is the first to test transfusing humans with cadaver blood. -
Dr. Fentis
Makes the term "blood bank" to describe donations. -
1939
In 1939, Drs. Philip Levine and R.E. Stetson uncover a unknown antibody in the blood of a woman -
Dr Karl Landsteiner
In 1940, Drs. Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener discover the Rh blood group, -
Dr. Karl Landsteir
Discoverd the RH blood group -
U.S. Army
The surgeohe U.S. general at the U.S. Army and Navy the american red cross organized a blood drive. -
Dr. Paul
Dr. Paul Beesun puts together the occurance of the in 7 cases of blood transfusions. -
Dr. Max Peruiz
Unvealed the structure of hemogolbin; the protin in red blood cells. -
Dr.Kenneth M. Binkhouse
produced a high concentrated form of factor -
GRID
The first known case of syndrome called GRID, Gay Immundeficiancy disease is common between gay men. -
Dr Bruce Evatt
a specalist at the centers for disease control begins to think this may be blood borun -
Dr. robert Gallo
of the NIH he identifed the virus that causes AIDS -
Infected
Millions of people were infected by AIDS from blood transfusions -
HIV1
more test were made the two test that were crated were the HIV1 and the HIV2