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Jan 24, 1260
Pulminary Circulation
A physician by the name Ibn al-Nafis discovers and describes the pulminary circulation. He tells how how the blood flows to and from the lungs. -
Jan 8, 1553
Flow of Blood
Michael Servetus suggested that blood flows around the lungs then threw the heart. -
Vein Value
An anatomist by the name Fabricius publishes hiw work on the values in viens showing the first drawings of vein values. -
Bloods Circulation
Blood is released throughout the whole body. The heart is what pumps the blood in the body of living things. -
Observation of Red Blood Cells
A Dutch microscopists by the name Jan Swammerdam, was the first person to observe and describe blood cells. -
Capillary System
Anatomist Marcello Malpighi obeserve a netwrook of fine vessels that connect the arteries and the veins. This system is known to be the Capillary System. -
Blood Tranfusion in Animals
Richard Lower performed the first recorded blood transfusion in animals. He used Christopher Wren technique of using a crude syringe made of goose quill and bladder. -
Description of Red Blood Cells
A Red Blood Cell is approximated decribe to be 25,000 times smaller then a fine grain of sand. -
William Hewson
Wlliam Hewson tells about his research on blood coagulation. He icludes his findings of arresting clotting and isolating substances from plasma. -
Human-to-Human Blood Transfusion
Philip Syng Physick performed the first human-to-human blood tranfusion, but was never published. A medical journal credits him for his work. -
Blood Transfusion
James Blundell is the first physician to record a human-to-human blood transfusion. -
Platelets
Small cell fragments from the bone marrow make up the bulk of clots formed in blood vessels which Sir William Osler was the first to observe. -
Three Main Blood Groups
Karl Landsteiner is a Australian physician that publishes his discovery of the 3 main blood groups of a human body. The blood groups are known as "A", "B", and "C". -
Blood Group "AB"
Alfred von Decastello and Adriano Sturli identify a fourth blood group "AB". It causes agglutination in the red cells. -
Cross Matching
The first blood transfusion cross matching was perform at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York by Dr. Reuben Ottenberg. -
Sodium Citrate
Researchers from Buenos Aires discover that adding sodium citrate to blood will prevent it from clotting. -
First Blood Depot
Dr. Oswald Robertson collects and stores type O blood with citrate-glucose solution. He then establishes the first blood depot during WWI -
Blood Donor Service
Percy Lane Oliver begins operating a blood donor service in London. He gets information from the doonor like; name, number log, type of blood, disease. He wants people who are easy to reach and will be able to travel to donate. -
Cadaver Blood
Dr. Serge Yudin was the first to test efficacy of transfusion humans with cadaver blood. He tests 420cc of blood from a cadaver of a 60year old man to a young man who attempted suicide. -
First Citrated Stored
A group of anesthesiologists at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota are the first to store citrated blood and utilize it for tansfusion. -
Blood-Transfusion Service
The Barcelona Blood-Transfusion Service was established by physician Federico Duran-Jorda. The service collects blood, test it, groups the blood, stores it and tranport it refigerated when needed. -
Blood Bank
Dr. Bernard Fantus coins the term "blood bank" to describe the donation of blood, collection. He then started a Cook Country Hospital as Director of Therapeutics. -
Plastic Bag
A trained surgeon, Dr. Carl W. Walter invented the plastic bag to collect blood. He found the plastic bag to be more stronger and easier to transport then a bottle. -
AIDS
The first case of syndrome initially called GRID are reportes. GRID is mostly found in gay men and later to be called AIDS. -
The ELISA test
Dozen of American got infected with AIDS due to Blood Transfusion. The ELISA test was created, which was the first screening test to detect the presence or absence of HIV Antibodies.