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Both Veins and Arteries are both found to contain blood, and that Arteries are larger than the blood's veins.
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A Greek philospher Aristotle, discovers the heart and observes that it has three chambered organ by dissecting many different animals.
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Alcmaeon observes that arteries and veins are dissimilar.
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Ibn al- nafis discovered how blood travels too and from the lungs.
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Marcello Malpighi uses a mcroscope to find that the capillary system connects the veins and arteries.
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stating the approximating size of red blood cells, 25,000 times smaller than a fine grain of sand.
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philip Syng Physick prforms the first human to human blood transfusion but doesn't publish it.
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patient dies from non compatible blood transfusion. James Blundell is the scientist that does the experiement.
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Sir William Osler finds out while experimenting that cell fragments from bone form clots in the blood.
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Karl Landsteiner discovers blood types A,B, and C through aggulation in test tubes. C is later changed to O.
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Alfred von Decastello and Adriano Sturli discover a fourth blood group called AB- a blood type that cases aggulation in both types A and B.
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Francis Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner create citrate-glucose solution to store blood for a few weeks and still able to be used for transfusion.
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Oswald Robertson stores blood for ww1 soldiers to have transfusions.
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Soviets are first to store blood for transfusions at hospitals.
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a group of scientists in Rochester, MN organize a transfusion service in hospitals for the first time in the US.
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Levine and Steston find anti rh through experiements with mother
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Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener discover Rh blood group.
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first cases of the virus shows up. initially was called GRID (Gay-related Immunodeficiency Disease). Later renames AIDS.
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Dr. Bruce Evatt suspects that AIDS is transfered or caught by blood contamination.
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they isolate the virus in the swollen lymph node in the neck of a Parisian AIDS patient and label it LAV (lymphadenopathy-associated virus).
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Dr. Robert Gallo announces he discovered the virus that causes AIDS, which he calls HTLV III (human T-cell lymphotropic virus).
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After a lot of americans are infected with HIV the government issues a screening test to see who has the virus.
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French and Americans fight over who should get the credit for the discovery of the HIV virus with a legal battle. They agree to share the credit.
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test for infectious diseases: hepatitis, Human T-Lymphotropic-Virus-I-antibody, hepatitis C test, HIV-1 and HIV-2 antibodies test, HIV p24 antigen test, Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing. These tests directly detect the genetic material of viruses.
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the Egyptians use bleeding to treat patients.
