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Alcmaeon of Croton completed animal dissections. From these dissections, he realized that veins and arteries are very similar.
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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.
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Claudius Galenus had a philosophy about medicine. He treated patients with medine to help them with their sicknesses.
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Eminent Cairo discovers the pumonary circulation. He noticed how blow flows from the lungs.
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Jan Swammerdam was a 21 year old microscopist. SWammerdam was the first person to observe and describle 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 hme. 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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Charles Drew create a way to seperate and preserve blood plasma, which will substitute for whole blood.
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The American Red Cross agrees to create a service in which people donate blood to collect blood plasma for WWI.
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Paul Beeson believes that there is a link between patients reeiving jaundice after they have gotten a blood transfusion done.
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Community blood banks joined together to create a national network of b lood banks called the American Asociation of Blood Banks.
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Carl Walter created a plastic bag to collect blood. They used to use glass bottles.
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Through x-rays, the stucture of hemoglobin and the protein within blood cells can be seen.
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Judith Pool discovered that thawed frozen plasma deposits high in Antihemiphilic Factor. The deposits are called cryoprecipitates.
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Edward Shanbrom produced a highly cocentrated form of factor VIII to have a stronger plasma.
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Baruch Blumberg finds a substance on the surface of hepatitis B that creates antibodies.
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The first cases of AIDS were recorded.
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Bruce Evatt believes that hemophilia may be linked to the blood.
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The virus, AIDS to found to be located in the lymph node in the back.
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Robert Gallo announces that HTLV III is the virus that is casuing AIDS.
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The first blood screening test was performed to view the presence or absence of HIV antbodies.
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Sensative Screen tests have been done to test for hapatitis.
