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Galen is one of the most known physicians in history because he explains that arteries contain blood. Also specifies that arteries and veins are different.
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An enlightned thinker, Aristotle, does many disections of different animals. He came up with the idea that the heart is the central organ of the body.
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Alconaeon of Croton, discovers that there is a difference between arteries and veins.
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Eminent Cario is a physician and an author. He describes the blood flow to and from the lungs.
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Fabricus an anatomist, publishes the drawings he did on valves in the veins which became the first drawing of the valves.
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British physician, William Harvey also drew a picture called, "Anatomical treatise on the movement of the heart and blood in animals" The picture explains that blood flows through the whole body and pumps through the heart.
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Jan Swawmmer Dam is said to be the first person to observe and describe RBC's.
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Marcello Malpighi, itatalian anatomist looks closely at the capillary system only to discover the works of the vessels that connect with the arteries and veins.
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Anatomist, William Hewson researches blood coagulation and uncovers more information about clotting and isolation of a substance due to plasma. The processbecame knownas "fibrogen".
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Phillip Syng Physick performs the first human-to-human blood transfusion but was never recorded.
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British obestetrician and physiologist, James Blundell is the first recored human-to-human blood transfusion.
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Sir William Osler find cell fragments located in bone marrow, which soon became called platelets.
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Karl Landstenier creates three human blood groups which consist of A, B, and O.
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Alfred Von Becastello and Adriano Sturli find another blood type to add to the group. The 4th group in AB
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Dr. Ludvig checks the blood of donors and checkscross matching for transfusions. This proceedure becomes very helpful throughout the years.
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Scientists Albert Hustin and Luis Agote come up with a method of placing sodium citrate to the blood to prevent cloggage.
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Dr. Richard Lewersohn creates a concentration of sodium citrate mixed with blood to prevent coagulation.
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J.R. Turner creates a solution that lets blood be stored for a few weeks and allows it still to be used for transfusion.
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Dr. Oswald Robertson creates the first blood depot.
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Percy lane Oliver operates a blood doner service within his own home and gets the help from volunteers to be placed on call for twenty-four hours incase blood is needed.
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Dr. Serge Yudin was the first to test transfusion to human with cadaver blood. Also, the soviets are the first to create a networkin which they store blood fur transfusions.
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Mayo Clinic established in the U.S. and was the first to store citrated blood.
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Dr. Bernard Fantus creates the term "blood bank" in replacement of blood donation.
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A doctor discovers an unknown anti-body found in a woman who gave birthto a stillborne.
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Dr. Charles Drew develops an idea to preserve blood plasma which can be used for the whole body.
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Red cross organizes a civilian blood donor to collect blood plasma for those at war.
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With the civilian blood donor inplay, national blood banks form together to create a network of blood banks.
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Dr. Carl Walter creates a plastic bag to collect blood.
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Dr. Max Perutz ddepicts the structure of hemoglobin which is the protein within the RBC's that carries oxygen.
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Dr.Judith Pool found cryo which has a greater clotting power than plasma.
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Dr. Kenneth and Edward Shambrom discovered large quantities of plasma that create cryo.
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The disease founded among mostly gay men (GRID) is founded.
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Dr. Bruce Evatt beieves thast the disease GRID is blood borne
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Researchers confront the virus that causes AIDS
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Robert Gallo discovers the virus that causes AIDS.