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Period: Apr 19, 1000 to
history of blood
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Apr 20, 1000
Claudius Galenus
he proves that arteries contain blood, -
Aug 19, 1200
discovery of circulation
Eminent Cairo physician discovers and describes pulmonary circulation -
what it look like
Fabricius draws the first drawings of vein valves. -
describe red blood cells
Jan Swammerdam is a microscopist thought to be the first person to observe and describe red blood cells. -
first blood tranfusion
The first recorded successful blood transfusion occurs in England: Physician Richard Lower keeps dog alive by transfusing blood from other dogs. -
blood transfusion
eminent British obstetrician and physiologist James Blundell performs the first recorded human-to-human blood transfusion -
william osler
small cell fragments from the bone marrow make1877h up the bulk of clots formed in blood vessels; these cell fragments will come to be called platelets -
substitutes
Saline infusion replaces milk as a “blood substitute” due to the increased frequency of adverse reactions to milk. -
blood types
Karl Landsteiner discoverd three main human blood groups -- A, B, and C, which he later changes to O -
new type
Fourth main blood type was discovered, AB. -
clotting
Albert Hustin and Luis Agote discover that adding sodium citrate to blood will prevent it from clotting. -
storing
Francis Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner develop a citrate-glucose solution that allows blood to be stored for a few weeks and still be good to use -
blood bank
Percy Lane Oliver begins operating a blood donor service out of his home -
dead mans blood
Dr. Serge Yudin is the first to test the efficacy of transfusing humans with dead peoples blood. -
new blood group
Rh blood group was discovered by Landsteiner, Wiener, Levine and Stetson -
war
Red Cross collects over 13 million units of blood over the course of the war. -
blood for war ?
U.S. Army and Navy, the American Red Cross organize a civilian blood donor service to collect blood plasma for the war effort. -
group up
community blood banks join together to form a national network of blood banks called the American Association of Blood Banks -
Dr. Max Perutz
the protein within red blood cells that carries oxygen. -
first
The first cases of a syndrome initially called GRID -
renamed
GRID (Gay-related Immunodeficiency Disease), is changed because prevalence among gay men, are reported. It is later renamed AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) -
who started it ?
Researchers at Dr. Luc Montagnier's lab at the Institut Pasteur, in France, isolate the virus that causes AIDS. They locate it in the swollen lymph node in the neck -
elisa
After dozens of Americans are infected with AIDS from blood transfusions. the first blood-screening test to detect the presence or absence of HIV antibodies -- the ELISA