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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.
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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.
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Jan Swamrdam was the first microscopist to decribe and see red blood cells.
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Richard Lower was the first on record to preform a blood transfustion in an animal.
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Jean-Baptiste Denis transfued a teen boy suffering from an infection with nine ounces of lambs blood.
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Dr. Denis sued Antoine Mauroy's husband for destroying her reputation.
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William Harvey publised a book and it talked about the blood circulates within the body and is pumped by the heart.
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William Hewson details his research on blood coagulation, and isolating a substance from plasma he calls "coagulable lymph." also known as fibrogen.
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Philip Syng Physick was the first person known to preform human-to-human trasfustion, off record.
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James Blundell was the first person on record to preform humanto-human transfusion.
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Karl Landsteiner published a paper on thre three main bloo types: A, B, and C which he later changes to O.
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Alfred Von Decastello and Adriano Sturli found another type of blood group called: AB
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Dr. Hektoen recommends checking the blood or paitents and donors so ther is no cross matching during transfusion.
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Almost at the same time, Albert Hustin and Luis Agote found out that adding sodiun citrate to blood will prevent blood clotting.
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Francics Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner made a citrate-glucose solution that keeps blood stored or fresh for a couple of weeks.
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Percy Lane Olive was the leader of the first blood donor sevice, and it was at his house in London.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Drs. Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener find the Rh blood group through experimenting with the blood cells of Rhesus monkey.
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Dr. Carl W. Walter develops a plastic bag to collect and hold blood.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.