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Jun 16, 1200
discovered the circulation
How a physician had discovered on how the blood flows to and also back the lungs -
Jan 10, 1553
Blood Flow
Spanish physician had suggested that blood flows from one side of the heart to the other lungs instead of the wall between the ventricles. -
red blood cells
A 21 year old Jan Swammerdam had discovered the red blood cells. -
performs the first transfussion in animals
Richard Lower had performed its first transfussion on animals in England. -
lambs blood in boy
French physician Jean-Baptiste Denis had transmitted a carotid artery onto a boy and had about nine ounces of lambs blood going up the boys forearm. -
Size of red blood cells
The size of a red blood cell is 25,000 times then the size of a grain of sand. -
human to human
Philip Syng Physick was the first to do a human to human blood transfussion. -
Using a syringe
James Blundell had performs the first recorded human to human blood transfusion using a syringe to inject the patient who was suffering from internal bleeding. The syringe had about 12 to 14 ounces of blood from many different people of donating their blood. -
observing blood cells
Sir William Osler had observed that the small cell fragments from the bone marrow makes up the clots that are formed in the blood vessels. -
Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner had also published a paper and discovered the three main human blood groups A, B, and C, which he later changed to O. -
Groups
Landsteiner and others had identified a fourth blood group -- AB -
Sodium Citrate
Researchers discover that adding sodium citrate to blood will prevent it from clotting. -
Blood Still Being Freshed
Dr. Richard Weil had determined that citrated blood can be refrigerated and stored for a few days and then transfused. -
Blood Donor Service
Percy Lane Oliver begins a blood donor service. Volunteers who are willing to donate are screened for disease, tested for blood types and their names are entered into a log so they can contact that person when a patient is in need of blood transfussion. -
Blood Transfussion
Dr. Serge Yudin was the first to test transfusion humans with cadaver blood. -
Soviets Collecting Blood
Soviets were the first to collect and store blood for use in transfusions at hospitals. -
Anestheologist Group
A anestheologist group had organized a transfusion were the first to begin storing citrated blood and transfuse it within a hospital in the U.S. -
Spanish Civil War
Federico Duran-Jorda established the Barcalona service and collects blood, tests it later its under refigeration and soon transported to the hospital during the Spanish Civil War. -
Unknown Antibody
Dr. Philip Levine and R.E. Stetson had uncovered an unknown antibody in the blood of a woman -
Rh
Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener had discovered the Rh blood group, from experimenting with the red blood cells. -
Red Cross for War
After Pearl Harbor the Surgeon General of the U.S. Army and Navy, the American Red Cross agreed to organize a civilian blood donor service to collect blood for war. The Red Cross had collected over 13 million units of blood. -
Aids
The first cases of a syndrome was called GRID (Gay-related Immunodeficiency Disease), Later it was changed to AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). -
Syndromo
Dr. Bruce Evatt, a specialist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had suspected that the syndrome may be blood borne meaning a disease in the blood.. -
Aids
Dr. Robert Gallo identified the virus that causes AIDS, which he now calls HTLV III -
1987
The french governments had agreed to share credit from the sales of test kits for the virus and stopping it.