Blood History

By nkugler
  • 500 BCE

    500 BCE
    Alcmaeon of Croton completed animal dissections. From these dissections, he realized that veins and arteries are very similar.
  • 350 BCE

    350 BCE
    Aristotle had a theory that the heart was the central organ of the body. Through dissections with animals, he noticed that the heart had three chambers.
  • 130-200 CE

    Claudius Galenus had a philosophy about medicine. He treated patients with medine to help them with their sicknesses.
  • mid 1200's

    mid 1200's
    Eminent Cairo discovers the pumonary circulation. He noticed how blow flows from the lungs.
  • 1658

    1658
    Jan Swammerdam was a 21 year old microscopist. SWammerdam was the first person to observe and describle red blood cells.
  • 1661

    1661
    Marcello Malpighi uses a rudimentary microscope to view the capillary system. He notices vessels connect arteries and veins.
  • 1665

    1665
    Richard Lower performs the first blood transfusion in animals.He connected the dog's jugular vein to the neck artery of the second dog.
  • 1674

    1674
    Anton van Leeuwenhoek describes red blood cells 25,000 times smaller than a grain of sand.
  • 1771

    William Hewson researched blood coaglation. He found that fibrogen is the key to blood clotting.
  • 1818

    1818
    James Blundell performs the first human blood transfusion. He injects the patient after internal bleeding.
  • 1874

    1874
    Sir William Osler observes small cell fragments from the bone marrow create clots from blood vessels. These are called platelets.
  • 1901

    1901
    Karl Landsteiner discovers that there are three differnt types of blood. He calls them A, B, and C, which later changes to O.
  • 1902

    1902
    Alfred von Decastello and Adriano Sturli find a new blood type. Ther is a combination of blood type A and B.
  • 1914

    1914
    Albert Hustin and Luis Agote discover that adding citrate to the blood will prevent clotting.
  • 1916

    Francis Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner discovered that a citrate-glucose soution that allows blood to be stored for weeks.
  • 1917

    1917
    Oswald Robertson stored type O blood in citrate-glucose for casualties in WWI
  • 1922

    1922
    Percy Lane Oliver began a blood donor service out of his hme. He had volunteers to donate blood.
  • 1930

    DR. Serge Yudin was the first to transfuse humans with cadaver blood.
  • 1937

    Bernard Fantus created the term "blood bank" to describe blood donation.
  • 1939-40

    Philip Levine and R.E. Stetson discover an unknown antibody in the blood of a women giving birth to a stillborn.
  • 1940

    1940
    Charles Drew create a way to seperate and preserve blood plasma, which will substitute for whole blood.
  • 1941

    1941
    The American Red Cross agrees to create a service in which people donate blood to collect blood plasma for WWI.
  • 1943

    Paul Beeson believes that there is a link between patients reeiving jaundice after they have gotten a blood transfusion done.
  • 1947

    1947
    Community blood banks joined together to create a national network of b lood banks called the American Asociation of Blood Banks.
  • 1948

    1948
    Carl Walter created a plastic bag to collect blood. They used to use glass bottles.
  • 1959

    1959
    Through x-rays, the stucture of hemoglobin and the protein within blood cells can be seen.
  • 1965

    Judith Pool discovered that thawed frozen plasma deposits high in Antihemiphilic Factor. The deposits are called cryoprecipitates.
  • late 1960's

    Edward Shanbrom produced a highly cocentrated form of factor VIII to have a stronger plasma.
  • 1971

    Baruch Blumberg finds a substance on the surface of hepatitis B that creates antibodies.
  • 1981

    The first cases of AIDS were recorded.
  • 1982

    Bruce Evatt believes that hemophilia may be linked to the blood.
  • 1983

    The virus, AIDS to found to be located in the lymph node in the back.
  • 1984

    Robert Gallo announces that HTLV III is the virus that is casuing AIDS.
  • 1985

    1985
    The first blood screening test was performed to view the presence or absence of HIV antbodies.
  • 1987-2002

    Sensative Screen tests have been done to test for hapatitis.