Blood History

By Dezmon
  • 200

    Galen

    galen states differnence between arteries and veins also says blood passes through liver
  • 300

    Egypt

    the first public human dissention occured in egypt
  • 350

    Aristotle

    aristotle believed that the heart was make up of 3 chambers
  • 400

    Hipocrates

    hippocrates preached that disease was caused by natural forces not magic
  • Jan 1, 1200

    Pulmanary Circulatataion

    eminento cario discovers pulmanary circulatation which is the flow of blood both to and form lungs
  • Jan 1, 1553

    Michael servetus

    michael servetus discovers blood pumps through the heart
  • Vein valves

    fabricius publishes of venin book on vein valves including first drawing of venin
  • William harvey

    william harvey publishes a book on blood through the human body
  • red blood cells

    jan swammerdam because the first person to observe and descibe red blood cells
  • capillary system

    marcello malpighi observes the capilliary system and connects veins and arteries
  • blood transfusion

    richard lower performed the first know blood transfusion on 2 dogs
  • lamb and boy blood transfusion

    jean baptiste denis peformed a blood transfusion
  • size of red blood cell

    anton van leevwenhock detemined the size of a red blood cell 25000x smaller then a single grain of sand
  • first human blood transfusion

    phyilp syng physic performend the first human blood transfusion
  • blood platelets

    william osler discovers blood platelets
  • blood type

    karl landersteiner discovers 3 main blood types A,B and C
  • Another blood type

    alfred von decastello and adriano sturli identify a fourth blood type A,B
  • Matched blood transfusion

    reuben attenberg performs the first transfusion cross matching blood
  • blood storage

    richard lewis puts sodium citrate in donor blood to help preserve it for a few days in the refrigerator
  • blood depot

    oswald robertson established the first blood depot
  • cadaver blood

    dr.serge yudin successfully performs a blood transfusion using cadaver blood
  • blood donors

    red cross opened civilian blood donation center
  • Aids

    first case of aids are reported
  • blood screening

    blood was screened for all diseases to prevent diseases through blood transfusions