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In Egypt the first public dissection of human cadavers was done by Herophilus and Chlecadon. Proved that arteries were larger than veins and carried blood.
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Aristotle found that te heart was centrlly located in the body. Through dissections he also found that the heart consisted of three chambers.
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Due to the ideas of Empedocles, Hippocrates suggestes that the body is made of blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile.
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A Greek who did alot of animal dissections, found that arteries and veins are dissimilar.
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Cairo physician and author described the pulmonary circulation.
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Suggested that blood flowed from one side of the heart to the other through the lungs.
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Fabricius published his work on valves in the veins. Provided the first drawings of valves in he veins.
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William Harvey explained how blood circulates through th body and is pumped by the heart.
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Dutch microscopist is believed to be the first to observe and describe red blood cells.
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Marcello Malpighi uses a rudimentary microscope to view the capillary system. He notices vessels connect arteries and veins.
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Richard Lower performs the first blood transfusion in animals.He connected the dog's jugular vein to the neck artery of the second dog.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek describes red blood cells 25,000 times smaller than a grain of sand.
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William Hewson researched blood coaglation. He found that fibrogen is the key to blood clotting.
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James Blundell performs the first human blood transfusion. He injects the patient after internal bleeding.
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Sir William Osler observes small cell fragments from the bone marrow create clots from blood vessels. These are called platelets.
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Karl Landsteiner discovers that there are three differnt types of blood. He calls them A, B, and C, which later changes to O.
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Alfred von Decastello and Adriano Sturli find a new blood type. Ther is a combination of blood type A and B.
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Albert Hustin and Luis Agote discover that adding citrate to the blood will prevent clotting.
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Francis Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner discovered that a citrate-glucose soution that allows blood to be stored for weeks.
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Oswald Robertson stored type O blood in citrate-glucose for casualties in WWI
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Percy Lane Oliver began a blood donor service out of his home. He had volunteers to donate blood.
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DR. Serge Yudin was the first to transfuse humans with cadaver blood.
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Bernard Fantus created the term "blood bank" to describe blood donation.
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Philip Levine and R.E. Stetson discover an unknown antibody in the blood of a women giving birth to a stillborn.
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The blood product cryoprecipitate is developed to treat bleeds in people with hemophilia.
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The “butterfly” needle and intercath are developed, making IV access easier and safer.
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Using X-ray crystallography Dr. Max Perutz identified the structure of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen.
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Dr. Judith Pool studied slowly thawed frozen plasma and observed some interesting properties. She found that the plasma had greater clotting power than normal plasma.
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The secretary of health found it necessary to transfer the regulation of the blood banking industry to the federal institute, the FDA. Because of this many tests were mandated by the FDA.
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The GRID (gay-related immunodeficiency disease) was first reported among gay men. This was later renamed as AIDS.
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Dr. Bruce Evatt found that even hemophiliacs were acquiring GRID. He then developed the theory that the sydnrome may be blood borne.
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At a lab in France the AIDS causing virus was isolated by researchers. It was found in the swollen lymph node of an AIDS victim.
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Dr. Robert Gallo of the National Institute of Health found the virus that caused AIDS. He called it the HTLV III (human T-cell lymphotrophic virus).
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The first blood screening test is performed due to the spread of AIDS due to blood transfusions. The test is adopted world-wide in order to control the spread of AIDS.
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Screen tests were implemented to find Hepatitis
