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Veins
Fabricius a anatomist from Padua published his work on the valves of veins with featured one of the first drawing of veins. -
movement of blood in the heart
William Harvey published his Anatomical treatise on the movement of the heart and blood in animals which explains how the blood circulates through the body and in the heart. -
fine vessels
Only using a rudimentary microscope Marcello Malpighi an anatomist observed fine vessels that connected to our veins. -
lamb's blood tranfusion
A physician named Jean-Baptiste Denis transfuses lamb's blood into a teenage boy suffering from constant fevers with no negative side affects -
no more transfusions on humans
Dr. Denis sues a widow for staining his reputation. Now no one can do blood transfustions on humans -
Leeuwenhoek
A man named Anton van Leeuwenhoek decribed the size of our blood cells are; 25,000 times smaller than rice. -
clotting blood
William Hewson as a book that describes his research on blood coagulation. He came up with "coagulable lymph" which is now known as fibrogen. -
first human blood transfusion
For the first time recorded in our history human-to-human blood transfusion was performed by a physiologist James Blundell. This was performed for a paitent who suffered from internal bleeding, sadly shortly after the transfusion the paitent died -
platelets
Sir William Osler was observing small cell fragments in bone marrow when he realized the made blood colts that from in the blood vessel. This was later know as platelets. -
Blood types
Dr. Karl Landsteiner published a paper on his findings of blood types. He explians about the three major types A, B, and C or O type, A and B blood type can not mix but O blood can mix with A and B type blood. -
fourth type of blood
Dr. Karl Landsteiner congrats Alfred von Decastello and Adriano Sturli on finding a fourth type of blood AB. the AB blood causes agglutination in both A and B blood types. -
checking for blood types
Checking for different blood types and making sure it was the same as the patients was recommended by Dr. Ludvig Hektoen from Chicago. And there used by Dr. Reuben Ottenberg who performed the first tranfusion using this method. -
no clots in preserved blood
Researches Albert Hustin of Brussels and Luis Agote of Buenos Aires make an incredible find, by adding sodium citrate to blood it will not allow it to clot while being pesevred. -
storing blood
at the rockefeller institute in New York Franis and J.R. develop citrate-glucose solution which preserves blood for a couple of weeks and still be useable. -
blood depot
While working in the U.S. Army in World World 1 Dr. Oswald Robertson collected O type blood an preserved it using a citrate-glucose solution. This created the first blood depot -
home blood transfusions
A man named Percy Lane Oliver began his own 24 hour call donor service. He hired people of good health that will be on the call 24 hours of the day as need to donate blood to hospitals. -
young to old
Dr. Serge Yudin is the first to successfuly transfer blood from a deceased 60 year old man to a young 23 year old. -
group meeting
In November the first meeting was held for all the community blood banks -
plastic bags
A surgeon named Percy Lane Oliver created plastic bags to contain the blood that was donated. This was a great turning point in history of blood this bags were stronger and more portable then the previous glass bottles -
stopping bleeding episodes
A physiologist at Stanford University named Dr. Judith Pool discovered that frozen plasma is able to stop bleeding in hemophiliacs patients -
Gay diease?
In the very beging of AIDS it was believe to come from gays and was called GRID (Gay-related Immunodeficiency Disease) because it was more common to find it among men. -
GRID or something else?
when GRID begins to appear in hemophiliacs patients a man named Dr. Bruce Evatt (works for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) begins to suspect thst this virsus maybe be blood brone and later tells his theories at a group meeting -
cause of AIDS
Dr. Robert Gallo indentified the cause of AIDS, he calls it HTLV III (human T-cell lymphotropic virus) -
dirty blood test
After many americans became infected with AIDS by blood transfer the first screening of blood was performed so that this will never happen again -
tests, tests, and more tests
Series of tests are now taking place on blood to make sure it is heathy and clean. So as not to give anyone a disease.
