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cius
publishes his work on valves in the veins, featuring the first drawings of vein valves. -
William Harvey
writes a book and explains that blood circulates within the body and is pumped by the heart. -
Jan Swammerdam
Jan was a duthc microscopist who is believed to be the first person to observe and describe red blood cells -
Richard Lower
preforms the first blood transfusion in animals. He used a syringe made of a goose quill and blader created by an architect named Christopher Wren, Lower transfused two dogs -
Jean-Baptiste Denis
Denis was a french physician who transfused a teenage boy who was suffering a fever with nine ounces of lambs blood. -
William Hewson
In his book he details his research on blood coagulation, including his success at arresting clotting and isolating a substance from plasma he dubs "coagulable lymph." -
Philip Syng Physick
Physick was a Philadelphian physician who was credited with the first human -to-human blood transfusion, but his works were not published -
Karl Landsteiner
discovers the three main human blood types A B and C ,which he later changes to O, -
Alfred von Decastelle and Adriano Sturli
find a fourth blood group AB that causes agglutination in the red cells of both groups "A" and "B -
Dr. Ludvig Hektoen
checking the blood of donors and recipients for signs of incompatibilit before to transfusion. -
Albert Hustin
researchers Albert Hustin and Luis Agote almost at the same ti,e discover that adding sodium citrate to blood will prevent it from clotting. But Hustin beat luis to publishing the findings in April. -
Richard Lewisohn
he creates the optimum amount of sodium citrate that can be mixed with blood without clotting , also he says it can be stored for a few days before use -
Rockefeller Institute
Francis Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner develop a citrate glucose solution that allows blood to be stored for a few weeks after collection and still be good for transfusion. -
Oswald Robertson
studys the work of Drs. Rous and Turner, he collects and stores type O blood, with citrate-glucose solution, in advance of the arrival of casualties during the Battle of Cambrai in World War I.Healso creates the first blood depot. -
Percy Lane Oliver
operating a blood donor service out of his home in London. gets volunteers who agree to be on 24-hour call and to travel to local hospitals to give blood as the need arises. All volunteers are screened for disease, tested for blood type, and their names are entered into a phone log, so they can be quickly contacted when blood is required. -
Serge Yudin
The first to test the efficacy of transfusing humans with cadaver blood. He successfully resuscitates a young man who's slashed both his wrists attempting suicide by injecting him with 420 cc of blood from a cadaver of a 60-year-old man -
Federico Duran-Jorda
establishes the Barcelona Blood-Transfusion Service. The service collects blood, tests it, pools it by blood group, preserves and stores it in bottles under refrigeration, and he uses vehicles with refrigerators -
Bernard Fantus
starts the term blood bank, he uses it to describe the place where he takes blood donations -
Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener
discover the Rh blood group, through experiments with the red blood cells of Rhesus monkeys, and identify the antibody found by Levine and Steston to be anti-Rh. -
Red Cross
the American Red Cross agrees to organize a civilian blood donor service to collect blood for the war. The first center opens in New York -
Carl Walter
A surgeon, makes a plastic bag for the collection of blood.Before this, glass bottles are used to store blood, but their susceptibility to contamination makes him come up with a stronger and more portable container using plastic -
Judith Pool
discovers that slowly thawed frozen plasma yields deposits high in Factor VIII The deposits called ccryo are found to have much greater clotting power than plasma and given to hemophiliacs to stop bleeding . It stops the need for hemophiliacs to travel to the hospital to be treated, since cyro can be kept frozen at home and infused -
aids
The first cases of a syndrome initially called GRID due to its prevalence among gay men, are reported. It is later renamed AIDS -
Robert Gallo
announces that he's identified the virus that causes AIDS, which he calls HTLV III at a press conference on April 23. -
ELISA test
After dozens of Americans are infected with AIDS from blood transfusions, the first blood-screening test called the ELISA test to detect the presence or absence of HIV antibodies. Its licensed by the U.S. government on March 2. The test is adopted by American blood banks and plasma centers.