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Jan 1, 1200
eminent cairo
discovers the circulation of flowing blood to and from the lungs -
william harvey
how the blood is pumped by the heart -
Jan Swammerdam
first man to look and describe the red blood cells -
rudimentary microscope
anatomist Marcello Malpighi observes vessels that connect the arteries and the veins -
Richard Lower
performs the first recorded blood transfusion in animals. using a syringe and bladder -
French physician Jean-Baptiste Denis
Jean-Baptiste Denis transfuses a teenage boy suffering from a persistent fever with nine ounces of lamb's blood. -
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
turned microscopist, provides a more understandable description of the red blood cell -
Philip Syng
physician Physick with performing the first human-to-human blood transfusion -
James Blundell
a human to human blood transfusion that was first recorded -
WILLIAM OSLER
DISCOVERS PLATELETS -
Alfred von Decastello and Adriano Sturli
finder of a fouth blood group (AB) this causes clumping in the red cell in both A and B -
DR. LUDVIG HEKTOEN
PERFORMS 1ST TRANSFUSION USING CROSS MATCHING -
Percy Lane Oliver
operatinsa blood donor service out of his home -
Dr. Serge Yudin
the first to test the efficacy of transfusing humans with cadaver blood -
BERNARD FANTUS
COINS TERM "BLOOD BANK" -
CARL W. WALTER
BLOOD BAG INVENTOR -
MAX PERUTZ
UNRAVELS STRUCTURE OF HEMOGLOBIN, PROTEIN IN RED BLOOD CELL THAT CARRIES OXYGEN -
Dr. Max Perutz
X-rays are beamed on crystals to reveal the distribution of their atoms -
Drs. Kenneth M. Brinkhous
produce a highly concentrated form of by pooling large quantities of plasma that generate vast amounts of cyro, -
Dr. Judith Pool
discovers that slowly thawed frozen plasma yields deposits -
GRID
(Gay-related Immunodeficiency Disease) thought it was only in gay men but later on known as (AIDS) -
Sir William Osler
observes that small cell from the bone marrow make up the building of clots formed in blood vessels;
