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200
Galen C130CE-200CE
Galen started dissecting and working on animals proving that arteries contain blood and stating that arteries and viens are diffrent then he said that blood formed in the liver and spread throught the body. This incorrect statement was used for a very long time -
300
Herophilis of Chalcedon c 300 BCE
Herophilis of Chalcedon disected the 1st human body in front of people determining that viens are thicker then arteries. -
350
Aristotle c 350 BCE
Aristotle believed that the heart had 3 circuit chambers, pathways that help blood pump into the heart. He also believed that it is the central organ of the body. -
500
Alcmaeon of Croton c 500 BCE
Alcmaeon of Croton notices that there is a diffrence between viens and arteries. -
Feb 27, 1250
ibn al-Nafis mid 1200s
ibn al-Nafis discovered plumonary circulation which is blood circulation to and from the lungs. -
Feb 27, 1553
Micheal Servetus
Micheal Servetus explains how blood flows from both sides of the heart. -
Fabricius 1603
Fabricius created the 1st vien valves drawing. -
William Harvey
William Harvey writes a book explaning how blood circulates around the body and how blood pumps from the heart. -
Jan swammerdam
Jan swammerdam was believed to be the person to discover and describe what red blood cells are at the age of 21. -
Richard Lower
Richard Lower does the 1st recorded blood transfusion using animals. -
Jeane Baptiste Denis
Jeane Baptiste Denis experiment with blood transfusion by transfusing blood from a lamb to a teenage boy, she kept doing the procedure until a boy named Antoine passes away. -
Dr. Denis
Dr. Denis sues antoines for ruining his reputation, they later ban any human blood transfusions. -
anton van leeuwenhoek
anton van leeuwenhoek discovers that RBC are 25,000 times smaller than a grain of sand. -
blood transfusion
The 1st blood transfusion took place in the 1700 century starting from animal to animal then from animal to human. -
William Hewson
william Hewson researched blood cotting (blood coagulation) and plasma. -
Philip Syng Physick
A footnote credits Philip Syng Physick. who did the 1st blood transfusion although it is was not published. -
James Blundell
James Blundell does the first human to human blood transfusion ever recorded. the partient recieves donor blood from diffrent patients and soon dies after showing some improvement. -
William Osler
William Osler determined that small cell fragments from bone marrow make up clots in blood vessels. -
Karl Landstiener
Karl Landstiener states that they're are 3 diffrent types of blood A,B,C which kater on changed to O. He also discovered that "c" never clumped when combining with either A or B. -
Karl Lanstiener
Karl Lanstiener itentified a fouth blood group named AB -
Robert Ruben
Dr. Robert Ruben Ottenburg performed the 1st blood transfusion cross matching. -
Albert Hustin and Luis Agote
Albert Hustin and Luis Agote discovered that adding sodium to the circuit of blood prevents it from clotting. -
Dr. Richard Weil
Dr. Richard Weil found out that it is possible to refrigerate blood for a few days and it still works. -
Percy Lane Oliver
Percy Lane Oliver recruited a blood donor service. -
Dr. surge Yudin
Dr. surge Yudin was the 1st to discover that it is possible to transfer a dead persons blood to a living person. -
Bernard Fantus
Bernard Fantus creates a blood bank in a hospital. -
Edwin Cohn
Edwin Cohn invented a way to seperate plasmas with diffrent protiens. -
Red Cross
The Red Cross created the 1st official blood bank to help with solidiers out at war, they recieved 13 million donations of blood. -
Robert Gallo
Robert Gallo discovered a what might cause aids -
American Assosiation of Blod Banks
the American Assosiation of Blod Banks was created post war to help out people in need of blood transfusions. -
Dr. Carl W. Walter
Dr. Carl W. Walter created the 1st blood bag to store blood. -
Baruch Blunberg
discovered Hepetitis B and stated hat it triggers the production of antibodies. -
Elliot Richardson
Elliot Richardson determined that blood banking should be handed over to the FDA to determine sanitation. -
GRIDS
AIDS was first named GRIDS but they later renamed it. -
AIDS
After alot of people were infected with AIDS after a blood donatio n they did a screening. -
Dr. Isodor Radvin
Treated victims of Pearl Harbor with albumin to increase blood volume.
