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Jan 1, 1200
Ibn al-Nafis discovers and describes pulmonary circulation
Pulmonary circulation is the flow of blood to and from the lungs -
British physician William Harvey publishes EXERCITATIO ANATOMICA DE MOTU CORDIS ET SANGUINIS IN ANIMALIBUS
Explained that blood is pumped by the heart and circulated through the body. Recieved much criticism for his experiments on animals. -
Jan Swammerdam, a Dutch microscopist, observes and describe red blood cells
using a microscope Jan Swammerdam becomes the first person to observe red blood cells -
Italian anatomist Marcello Malpighi observes the capillary system
using a microscope, Malpighi observes the capillary system, the intricate network of vessels that connect veins and arteries -
Richard Lower performs the first recorded blood transfusion in animals
Using a goose quill and bladder, Richard Lower performs a blood transfusion by taking b lood from when dog and giving it to a second dog -
French physician Jean-Baptiste Denis transfuses a teenage boy with lamb's blood
Denis uses 9 oz of lambs blood to transfuse it into a teenage boy suffering from a fever. The procedure was successful and Denis performed transfusions on 6 others! -
Richard Lower performs a transfusion in front of the Royal society
Richard Lower gives a patient 7 oz of sheeps blood in front of the royal society, the patient recovers -
Philip Syng Physick performs the first human-to-human blood transfusion
Credited with the first human to human blood transfusion in a medical journal all though none of his work had been published -
Sir William Osler discovers platelets
Observes that small fragments in bone marrow make up bulk of clots in blood vessels -
the discovery of blood groups
Alfred von Decastello identify blood groups "A" "B" and "AB" based on aggulation -
Dr. Reuben Ottenberg performs the first transfusion using cross matching
Dr. Ottenburg performs first successful cross transfusion. He continues to use it later in a total of 128 cases -
Discovery of blood clot prevention
Albert Hustin discovers sodium citrate will prevent blood clots -
Dr. Richard Weil discovers you can refrigerate and store blood
Dr. Wel discovers you can refrigerate citrated blood and save it for a few days. -
Dr. Richard Lewisohn and blood clot prevention
Dr. Richard Lewisohn formulates the right amount of sodium citrate to be mixed in with blood to prevent blood clots. he states 2% is the right amount -
Francis Peyton Rous develops a citrate-glucose solution
At the Rockefeller institute Francis Peyton Rous develops a glucose citrus solution that allows blood to be stored for a few weeks before transfusion -
Dr. Oswald Robertson establishes the first blood depot
Before the battle of Cambrai in WWI, Oswald uses Rous's solution to store blood type O. creating the first blood depot. -
Percy Lane Oliver begins operating a blood donor service
Percy Lane Oliver begins a blood donor service with a group of volunteers availabe on a 24-hour call. Volunteers were screened for disease and blood types then had their names taken down. -
The Soviets become first to establish facilities to collect and store blood
Soviets build facilities to store blood for transfusions in hospitals -
physician Federico Duran-Jorda establishes the Barcelona Blood-Transfusion Service
With the need for blood transfusions for soldiers in the Spanish civil war, Federico Duran-Jorda sets up aservice that can store and transport blood to soldiers on the front line -
Spanish-Canadian Blood Transfusion Institute
Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune sets up a similar service as the Madrid blood service for soldiers called Spanish-Canadian blood transfusion Institute -
"blood bank"
term coined by Dr. Bernard Fantus in chicago IL -
Rh blood group
Drs. Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener discover the Rh blood group by studying red blood cells and determine they are ant-bodies -
Edwin Cohn
due to the shortage of blood plasma in britian during the civil war Cohn searches for a subsitute by breaking up its protiens -
civilian blood donor service
For the war effort and lack of blood plasma the surgeon general sets up a civilian blood donor service to help the war effort -
JAMA
Dr. Paul Beeson links cases of Juandice to blood or plasma transfusions -
Storing blood in plastic bags
Dr. Carl W. Walter develops a plastic bag for the collection of blood. before this, glass bottles were used to store blood, but they were easy to break and were easily contaminated which made walter create a new device for storage. revolutionizing blood collection. -
Hemogoblin discovered
through x-Rays the Hemogoblin is found in red blood cells and determined that it carries oxygen -
cryoprecipitates
discovered by Drs.Judith Pool, cryoprecipiates are found to have greater clotting power and given to hemophiliacs -
Food and Drug Administration
secratary of health, education, and welfare gives the responsibilt of blood banking to the FDA -
Dr. Baruch Blumberg
Dr. Blumberg discovers a virus in hepatitus B that releases antibodies. he therefor makes a test to detect this hepatitis B antibody -
GRID
an autoimmune defficiency is named GRID after its assciation with gay men -
hemophiliacs develop GRID
the CDC determines that GRID is a blood borne disease -
LAV
French doctors isolate the virus that causes AIDS. they loate it in the swollen lymph node and name it LAV -
the ELISA test
after many americans had been diagnosed with AIDS screen test begin to detect the presence or absence of AIDS
