History Of Blood

  • Jan 1, 1553

    Early Ideas

    Michael Servetus thought that blood flows from one side of the heart to the other like through the lungs instead of through the wall between the ventricles which went against Galen's theory, he is burned at the stake for denying the Trinity.
  • EXERCITATIO ANATOMICA DE MOTU CORDIS ET SANGUINIS IN ANIMALIBUS

    William Harvey publishes his masterwork EXERCITATIO ANATOMICA DE MOTU CORDIS ET SANGUINIS IN ANIMALIBUS, which he explains inside that blood circulates within the body and is pumped by the heart.
  • Red Blood Cell

    Jan Swamrdam was the first microscopist to decribe and see red blood cells.
  • Blood Fusion

    Richard Lower was the first on record to preform a blood transfustion in an animal.
  • Transfustion

    Jean-Baptiste Denis transfued a teen boy suffering from an infection with nine ounces of lambs blood.
  • Transfustion Banned

    Dr. Denis sued Antoine Mauroy's husband for destroying her reputation.
  • EXERCITATIO ANATOMICA

    William Harvey publised a book and it talked about the blood circulates within the body and is pumped by the heart.
  • EXPERIMENTAL ENQUIRY INTO THE PROPERTIES OF THE BLOOD

    William Hewson details his research on blood coagulation, and isolating a substance from plasma he calls "coagulable lymph." also known as fibrogen.
  • Human-to-Human Transfustion

    Philip Syng Physick was the first person known to preform human-to-human trasfustion, off record.
  • Recorded Human-to-Human

    James Blundell was the first person on record to preform humanto-human transfusion.
  • Blood Types

    Karl Landsteiner published a paper on thre three main bloo types: A, B, and C which he later changes to O.
  • New Bllod Group

    Alfred Von Decastello and Adriano Sturli found another type of blood group called: AB
  • Dr. Ludvig Hektoen's recommendations

    Dr. Hektoen recommends checking the blood or paitents and donors so ther is no cross matching during transfusion.
  • Two different scientist, One discovery

    Almost at the same time, Albert Hustin and Luis Agote found out that adding sodiun citrate to blood will prevent blood clotting.
  • The Rockefeller Institution

    Francics Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner made a citrate-glucose solution that keeps blood stored or fresh for a couple of weeks.
  • First Blood Donation Service

    Percy Lane Olive was the leader of the first blood donor sevice, and it was at his house in London.
  • Hospitals Transfusions

    Dr. Serge Yudin was the first to test the efficancy of transuing human blood with cadver blood. He saved a man who attempted suiced and the Soviets established a network to collect blood to use in transfusions at the hospital.
  • Blood-Transfusion Service

    Federico Duran-Jorda made the Barcelona Blood-Transfusion Service which collects blood, tests it, puts it in blood groups, and stores it in bottles under refrigeration.
  • Babies

    Drs. Philip Levine and R.E. Stetson discover an unknown antibody in the blood of a female who's given birth to a stillborn child
  • Rh Blood

    Drs. Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener find the Rh blood group through experimenting with the blood cells of Rhesus monkey.
  • New Inventions

    Dr. Carl W. Walter develops a plastic bag to collect and hold blood.
  • Red Blood Carries Stuff

    Through the use of X-ray crystallography Dr. Max Perutz is able to define the structure of hemoglobin, the protein within red blood cells that carries oxygen.
  • Bad Blood

    The first cases of a syndrome called GRID (Gay-related Immunodeficiency Disease), due to its aboundence in gay men, are reported. It is lnow known as AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).
  • Learning About AIDS

    Researchers at Dr. Luc Montagnier's lab isolate the virus that causes AIDS. They later located it in the swollen lymph node in the neck of a Parisian.
  • ELISA TEST

    After a lot of people were infected with AIDS from blood transfusions, they came up with the ELISA test to help detect AIDS in a donors blood stream.