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Blood History
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Blood Circulation
William Harvey explains that blood is pumped by the heart and circulate through the body -
Maybe the 1st
Jan Swammerdam is said to be the 1st to describe red blood cells -
Capillary System
Marcello Malpighi observers the Capillary system -
1st Recorded Blood Trans.
Richard Lower does the 1st recorded blood transfusion (with animals) -
A Better Description
Anton van Leeuwenhoek makes a better description of red blood cells -
Human to Human
Philip Syng Physick is said to be the first in preforming a human to human blood transfusion (work wasn't published) -
1st Recorded H-to-H
the 1st recorded Human to Human blood transfusion was done by James Blundell -
Bluk of Clots
Sir William Osler discovers that platelets (not named at the time) make up the bluk of blood clots -
Discovery of Blood Types
Karl Landsteine discovers the 3 blood types A,B,C (later to be called "O") -
New Blood Type
Alfred von Decastello and Adriano Sturli (Landsteiner's colleagues) discover a new blood type... AB -
Cross Matching Trans.
Dr.Reuben Ottenburg prefoms the 1st cross matchin transfusion. Does this for 7 years and does it 128 time without failure -
Refrigeration
Dr.Richard Weil notes that blood can be refrigerated (only a few days) then be rehosted -
Longer Refrigeration
Francis Peyton Rous & J.R. Turner creates a solution that allows blood to be stored for weeks at a time -
Trans. with Cadaver Blood
Dr.Serge Yudin is the 1st to test transfusing cadaver blood -
Secrete Antibody Uncovered
Drs. Philip Levine and R.E. Stetson uncover a antibody in the blood of a women -
Named Antibody
Drs.Karl Landsteiner & Alexander Wiener identify Levine's finding as Anti-Rh after testing the cells of monkeys -
System for Red Cross
Dr.Charles Drew creates a system to test, process, and store plasma for Red Cross to deliver durning a time of crisis -
The Blood Bag
Dr.Carl W. Walter revloutionizes the collection of blood with his invention of the plastic bag (now called bllod bag) -
Hemoglobin
Dr. Max Perutz uses X-ray crystallography to unravel the protein Hemoglobin -
Introduce to AIDS
GRID or Gay-related Immunodeficiency Disease was started to be repoted in Gay males. Was later renamed Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome od AIDS -
Speculations
Dr. Bruce Evatt thinks that the virus is blood borne -
Isolated
Researches in France are able to isolate the virus that causes AIDS -
human T-cell lymphotropic virus
Dr. Robert Gallo announces that he's identified the virus that causes AIDS names it human T-cell lymphotropic virus -
ELISA Test
the ELISA test is licensed by the U.S. Gov. after dozens were infected with AIDS. the test screened the body to detect presence and/or absence of HIV antibodies -
More Test
more tests are developed and implemented tolook for blood infectious diseases:
