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Jan 1, 1250
Eminent Cairo and Ibn al-Nafis
They discovered and described the pulimanary system. -
Fabricius
Fabricius was the first to draw and publish the valves of the veins and how they work and look. -
William Henry
William Henry states a finding that says blood is pumped by the heart which allows the blood to circulate within the body. -
Jan Swammerdam
The first person to describe the red blood cell was Jan Swammerdam. -
Marcello Malpighi
Malpighi uses a type of telescope and observes the connection of the arteries and the veins. -
Richard Lower
Richard Lower was the first to do a blood transfusion in an animal. This showed its possible to do a blood transfusion. -
Jean-Bapiste Denis
First blood transfusion on human using lamb's blood. He attached the lambs carotid artery to a vein in the boys arm. -
Dr. Denis sues Antoine Mauroy's widow
The French Parliament's ban on all transfusions involving humans. -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Anton gave a more precise description of the red blood cell including the size is "25000 time smaller than a fine grain of sand". -
William Hewson
Hewson published his reseach about fibrogen, a key protein in the clotting process. -
Philip Syng Physick
Physick did the first human-to-human blood transfusion. -
James Blundell
The first recorded human to human blood transfusion which failed in the end. -
Red Cross
Red cross is founded!! -
Karl Lansteiner
Lansteiner published a paper giving 3 major blood types; A, B, and C, later replaced with O. Determined by the aactions of the red blood cells and what the blood is made of. -
Dr.Landsteiner
Dr.Landsteiner identifies anothor blood type, AB. -
Albert Hustin & Luis Agote
These doctors discovered that adding Sodium Citrate to blood will prevent blood clotting. -
Dr. Richard Lewisohn,
Lewisohn creates a solution that can be mixed with a blood of a donor toprevent coagulation, but pose no danger to the recipient. -
Francis Peyton& J.R. Turner
Peyton and Turner developed a solution of Citrate-Glucose that allows blood to be stored for a longer period of time. -
Dr. Oswald Robertson
Robertson created the first depot by using Drs. Rous and Turners blood storing theory. -
Percy Lane Oliver
Oliver created a blood donation "call center" from his house. He tested his volunteers for diseases and blood types and called them when he needed there blood. -
Soviet
Soviets established a network of facilities to collect and store blood to be later used in hospitals. -
Dr.Serge Yudin
Yudin was the first to test the transfusion of blood from a cadaver to a human. -
Dr.Norman Bethone
Bethone organized a moible blood service in Madrid. -
Dr. Philip Levine & R.F. Stetson
Levine and Stetson discover an antibody in women who had stillborn births. Discovering the stimulous is the blood in the fetus inherited by the father causes the antibody to produce. -
Edwin Cohn
Cohn developes a substitute for liquid plasm that can be seperated by its protein by using different tempertures and chemical conditions. -
Dr. Carl W. Walter
Walter created a beg for blood storage to replace the fragile glass bottles originally used to blood storage. -
Dr.Max Perutz
Perutz used a crystallography x-ray and discovered the structure of the hemoglobin. -
Dr. Judith Pool
Pool found a faster and more powerful way to create clotting. -
Drs. Kenneth m Brinkhous & Edward Shanbom
Brinkhous and Shanborn discovered an even more effective clotting substance in which the patient themselves can admister. -
D. Bauch Blumberg
Blumberg identified hepatitis B virus antibodies allowing the identfication of infected donors. -
Brruce Evatts
Evatts theorized that AIDS was a blood borne disease. -
Dr. Lue Montagnier
Montagnier located the virus that causes AIDS, which is located in the swollen lymph nodes in the neck. -
Government
Blood screening and testing for AIDS was neccessary for donors becomes licensed by the U.S government. -
Tests
More test become available for testing the diseases and viruses. The sensitivity to the viruses was improved each time. -
Claudius Galen
Claudius Galen proves that blood runs through the systems of arteries and veins. He says blood is formed in the liver though not true it was still the core of medical blood theories.
