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Eminent Cairo discovers and describes pulmonary circulation which is the flow of blood to and from the lungs.
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Michael Servetus suggested that blood flows from one side of the heart to the other by the lungs . He was burned for Trinity!
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Andreas Vesalius criticized Galen for his work on human anatomy.
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Fabricius is ananatomist from Padua that publishes his work on valves in veins.
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William Harvey publishes his masterwork on the movement of the heart and blood in animals.
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Jan Swammerdam is the first person to observe and describe red blood cells.
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Marcello Malpighi observes the capillary system which is a bunch of vessels that connect the arteries and the veins.
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Richard Lower is the first recorded man to do a blood transfusion in animals.
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Jean-Baptiste Denism is a French physician that tranfused a teenage boy with lamb blood.
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Dr. Denis sues Antoine Mauroy's widow because she is hurting his reputation
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek provides and shows a more precise description of red blood cells.
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William Hewson published a book that shows his research on blood coagulation
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Philip Syng does the first human-to-human blood transfusio
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James Blundel performs the first recorded human-to-human blood transfusion
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Sir William Osler discovers platelets.
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Karl Landsteiner publishes his work about the discovery of the three main human blood .
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Dr. Landsteiner's finds the cause of agglutination in the red cells of both groups
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Dr. Ludvig Hektoen starts to recommend checking the blood of the donors.
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Albert Hustin and Luis Agote have discovered that adding sodium citrate to blood will prevent it from clotting.
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Dr. Richard Lewisohn conjures up a formula that optimizes concentration of sodium citrate that can be mixed with donor blood to prevent itmfrom clotting up.
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Francis Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner made and developed a citrate glucose solution that allows blood to be stored.
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Dr. Oswald Robertson establishes the first blood depot by collecting and storing type O blood,
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Percy Lane Oliver starts offering blood donor services.
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Dr. Serge Yudin is first person the figure out the efficacy of transfusing humans with cadaver blood.
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Anesthesiologists at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester are the first to begin storing citrated blood and then using it for transfusion.
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Federico Duran-Jorda preserved and stored bottle blood and shipped it to the front line hospitals during the Spanish Civil War.
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Dr. Bernard Fantus started a blood donation, collection, and preservation facility in Chicago, IL.
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Philip Levine and R.E. Stetson discovered an unknown antibody in the blood of a women.
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Drs. Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener both discovered the Rh group.
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Edwin Cohn, a Harvard biochemist, invented a method to separate out different proteins.
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Dr. Isidor Ravdin successfully treats victims of the Pearl Harbor attack thanks to the American Red Cross.
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Dr. Paul Beeson successfully describes the tranfusion-transmitted hepatitis..
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American Association of Blood Banks is a national network of blood banks.
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Dr. Carl W. Walter invents a plastic bag for the collection of blood
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Dr. Robert Gallo discovered the virus that causes AIDS, which he calls human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV III).
