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Galenus discovered the linings of veins and where they were connected too.
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He discoved the existence of the blood flow to and from the lungs
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Servetus came up with the idea that the blood pumped from the heart was passed throught the lungs not the veins, defying Galen's ideas.
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Fabricus was the first anatomist to publish his work on vein valves and make drawings for them.
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He explained that the blood circulates the body as the heart pumps.
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Jan is believed to be the first person to observe red blood cells
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Malphigi observed the capillary system with a microscope. The capillar system is a network of fine vessels that connect arteries and veins.
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Lower has the very first recorded blood transfussion with animals. It was done with a very crude syringe.
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Denis had sued Antoine Mauroy's widow for ruining his reputation. This case later caused the fraench parliment to ban all human transfussions.
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Leeuwenhoek gave a very precis desccription of a RBC. He said it was "25,000 times smaller than a fine grain of sand" .
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Hewson discovered the coagulable lymph which is now known as the fibrogen. The fibrogen plays a big role in blood clotting.
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Physick had a foot note in his medical journal which proves that he actually performed the first blood transfussion from on human to another.
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Performs the first recorded blood transfer between humans. However the patient show improvement he died shortly after.
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These two young men discovered the AB blood group which cause agglutination in both the A and B blood types.
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They discovered that adding sodium citrate to blood will stop it from clotting,
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Robertson collected and stored type O bood while serving in the army.
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Oliver created a blood donor system where people on a 24 hour call and to travel to any hospitals that needed them.
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Fantus started a blood bank in Chicago,Il.
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The plasma shortage in WWII made the U.S start the Plasma of Britaain campaign.
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Civilian blood donation centers were set up throughout the country to collect plasma for the war.
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Walter invented the first bag to hold blood in since they used to use glass bottles.
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Perutz was able to unravel the hemo globin which is a carrier for protein within RBC's that carry oxygen.
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Brinkhous was able to turn raw plasma into cyro which is a hundred times stronger making useful for a hemophilla patient.
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The first cases of this syndrome.
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Many people were getting Aids due to all the blood tranfussions and notthe right screenings.