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Period: Jan 19, 1200 to
Blood History
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Feb 19, 1200
pulminory circulation
Cairo physician Ibn al-Nafis discovers the flow of blood from an to th lungs -
Jan 1, 1553
Blood flows through heart
Spanish physician Michael Servetis describes that blood flows from one side of the heart to the other to the lungs instead of through the wall btwwen the ventricles -
Fabricius
Fabricius is the first to draw the veins -
William Harvey
William Harvey publishes his book ab out how the blood circulates within the body and pumped by the heart -
Jan Swammerdam
Jan Swammerdam, a 21-year-old Dutch microscopist, is thought to be the first person to observe and describe red blood cells. -
Richard Lower
Richard Lower was the first to perform a recorded blood transfusion on animals -
More precise description of blood cells
Anton van Leeuwenhoek provides a more precise description of red blood cells, even approximating their size -
Blood cougulation
William Hewson describes blood cougulation and his success at arressting, clotting, and isoltiong a substance called fibrogen -
Human to Human blood transfusion
Philip Syng Physcs conducts first human to human blood transfusion -
First recorded blood transfusion
British physioligist James Blundell performs the first recorded human blood transfusion -
Plateles
Sir William Osler discovers plateletes which are small cell fragments from the bone marrow -
Blood groups
Karl Landsteiner detaikls three human blood groups A,B, and C which he soon turns to O -
Blood type AB
Dr. Landsteiner's colleagues identify blood type AB -
sodium citrate
Dr. Richard Lewisohn added sodium citrate to blood to prevent it coagulation -
Cadeer transfusion
Dr. serge Yuddin is the first to do a blood transfusion using a cadver's blood. -
Federico
Federico Duran-Jorda establishes the Blood Transfusion Service which stores, collects, and transfuses blood to patients -
Blood Blank
Dr. Bernard Fantus creates the term "blood bank" and establishes one in Chicago -
Rh blood group
In 1940, Drs. Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiene discover the Rh blood group -
fractionation
Edwin Cohn creates fractionation to find a subsitute for blood plasma -
Blood bag
Dr. Carl W. Walter creates a bag to store blood in