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Physcian and author Ibn al-Nafis discovered and also described pulmonary circulation. (blood flow in and from lungs.)
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Andreas Vesalius critizes Galen on his second his second edition anatomy book "De Fabrica".
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"On the Valves of Veins" was publised by anatomist Fabricius. It gives you the first drawings of vein valves.
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Microscopist Jan Swammerdam is said to be the first person to look at red blood cells.
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Marcello Malpighi an Italian antomonist looks at the capillary system using a rudimentary microscope.
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First person to achieve a blood transfusion on a living thing is Richard Lower. He used a dog he bled, and connected his jugular vein to the neck artery of a second dog, resuscitating the first dog.
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek comes up with a percise size of a red blood cell saying "25,000 times smaller than a fine grain of sand."
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James Blundell injects 12-14 ounces of blood into a patient with internal bleeding. The patient died once it showed improvement but the transfusion is the first recorded human-to-human blood transfusion.
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Philip Syng Physick was said to be the first person to perform a human-to-human blood transfusion. Only a footnote found in a journal credits him, but none of his work was ever published.
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Sir William Osler looks at small cell fragments from bone marrow that make clots in blood vessels, later calling them platelets.
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Alfred von Decastello and Adriano Sturli indentify blood type AB.
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Dr. Ludvig Hektoen adivses that the blood of donors and recipents check their blood for incopalability before transfusion.
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At almost the exact time two different researchers, Albert Hustin and Luis Agote, come up with a solution using sodium citrate. Adding sodium citrate to blood prevents it from clotting,
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Dr. Richard Weil finds out that you can refridgerate and store citrated blood for a few days and be able to transfuse it.
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Francis Payton Rous and J.R. Turner make a citrate-gluclose solution for being able to store blood for a long time and still be fresh enough for a transfusion.
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Dr. Oswald Robertson collects and stores blood type O with citrate-gluclose solution. It then arrives during a battle in WWI establishin it as a blood depot.
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Percy Lane Oliver operates a blood donor service out of his home in London.
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Soviets were the first to put up facilities to collect and store blood in hospitals.
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Dr. Serge Yudin was the first doctor to perform a blood transfusion using cadaver blood.
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Anesthesiologists from a Mayo Clinic are the first to store citrated blood and using it in a hospital setting.
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Dr. Norman Bethune organized blood services during the Spanish civil war.
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Dr. Bernard Fantus came up with the term "blood bank" to describe blood donations, and collecting blood.
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An unknown antibody in the blood of a woman who gave birth to a stillborn was found by Drs. Philip Levine and R.E. Stetson. The fetus inherits a postulate from the dad, and that triggers the antibody making in the mother.
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Drs. Karl Lendsteiner and Alexander Wiener find the Rh blood group in a monkey.
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The first cases of GRID (Gay-related Immunodeficency Disease) popped up in gay men. It is later renamed AIDS.
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Dr. Robert Gallo identifies the virus that causes AIDS. It is HTLV III.
