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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
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Herophilis of Chalcedon disected the 1st human body in front of people determining that viens are thicker then arteries.
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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.
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Alcmaeon of Croton notices that there is a diffrence between viens and arteries.
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ibn al-Nafis discovered plumonary circulation which is blood circulation to and from the lungs.
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Micheal Servetus explains how blood flows from both sides of the heart.
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Fabricius created the 1st vien valves drawing.
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William Harvey writes a book explaning how blood circulates around the body and how blood pumps from the heart.
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Jan swammerdam was believed to be the person to discover and describe what red blood cells are at the age of 21.
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Richard Lower does the 1st recorded blood transfusion using animals.
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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.
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Dr. Denis sues antoines for ruining his reputation, they later ban any human blood transfusions.
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anton van leeuwenhoek discovers that RBC are 25,000 times smaller than a grain of sand.
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The 1st blood transfusion took place in the 1700 century starting from animal to animal then from animal to human.
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william Hewson researched blood cotting (blood coagulation) and plasma.
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A footnote credits Philip Syng Physick. who did the 1st blood transfusion although it is was not published.
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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.
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William Osler determined that small cell fragments from bone marrow make up clots in blood vessels.
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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.
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Karl Lanstiener itentified a fouth blood group named AB
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Dr. Robert Ruben Ottenburg performed the 1st blood transfusion cross matching.
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Albert Hustin and Luis Agote discovered that adding sodium to the circuit of blood prevents it from clotting.
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Dr. Richard Weil found out that it is possible to refrigerate blood for a few days and it still works.
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Percy Lane Oliver recruited a blood donor service.
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Dr. surge Yudin was the 1st to discover that it is possible to transfer a dead persons blood to a living person.
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Bernard Fantus creates a blood bank in a hospital.
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Edwin Cohn invented a way to seperate plasmas with diffrent protiens.
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The Red Cross created the 1st official blood bank to help with solidiers out at war, they recieved 13 million donations of blood.
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Robert Gallo discovered a what might cause aids
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the American Assosiation of Blod Banks was created post war to help out people in need of blood transfusions.
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Dr. Carl W. Walter created the 1st blood bag to store blood.
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discovered Hepetitis B and stated hat it triggers the production of antibodies.
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Elliot Richardson determined that blood banking should be handed over to the FDA to determine sanitation.
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AIDS was first named GRIDS but they later renamed it.
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After alot of people were infected with AIDS after a blood donatio n they did a screening.
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Treated victims of Pearl Harbor with albumin to increase blood volume.
