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The second most important physician in history, proving there is blood in our veins. Galen ideas becaome the center of medical reasearch for years.
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William Harvey states the heart pumps the blood through the body.
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Swammerdam is the first person to see and give a discription of a red blood cell.
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Marcello Malpighi doscover the vessels whcih connect the arteries and veins,
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Richard Lower was the first to recorded he's transfusion on two dogs.
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek provided a better describtion of a blood cell. He said they are 2500 hundrend times smaller than a grain of sand.
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william hewson discovers the key substance with in plasma that starts the blood clotting process.
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James Bundell did the first recordedhuman to human blood transfusion. The patient was given 12 to 14 ounces of donor blood, the patient died shortly after showing improvement.
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platelets are made up of small cell fragments of bone marrow.
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Karl Landsteiner wrote a paper about the discovery of the A,B, and O blood types.
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transfusins using incompatable blood types begin bein used.
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.2 percent is the highest amount of sodium that can be placed with donor blood to prevent coagulation.
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The first chain of blood banks were created by the soviets
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the RH blood goup is discovered along with the anti-Rh.
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Dr. Charles Drew created a blood subsitute which was the blood plasma.
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during world war two the red cross blood bank collected over 13 million ounces of blood .
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Dr. Carl Walter creates the plastic baggy containers to hold the donated blood.
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x-ray were used to see the structures of hemoglobin.
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frozen cryo has a greater power of clotting.
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Dr. Blumberg creates a test to identify hepatites in blood donors.
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AIDS is first incountered in gay men.
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The ELISA test if created and made official to detect the HIV antibodies. The U.S and French governments share credit on discovering the AIDS virus.
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Several more tests are designed and created to detect diseases and infections in blood donors.
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the fourth main type of blood is finaly discover which is AB.
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the LAV ( lymphadenophathy-associated virus) is diagnosed in a parisian patiet who had AIDS.
