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Eminent Cairo discovers and describes pulmonary circulation.
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Fabricius publishes his work on the valves in veins, which have the first drawings of veins.
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Jan Swammerdam, thought to be the first to observe and describe red blood cells.
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Marcello Malpighi observes the capillary system.
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Anton Van Leevwenhoek approximates the size of red blood cells. (25,000 times smaller than a fine grain of sand.
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William Hewson masters clotting and isolating a substance from plasma now known as fibrogen.
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James Blundell performs the first human-to-humn blood transfusion.
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Sir William Osler observes that small cell fragments from bone marrow make up the bulk of clots in blood vessels.
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Karl Landsteiner discovered the three main blood types.
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Landsteiner's colleagues identify a fourth blood group.
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Albert Hustin and Huis Agote discover that adding sodium citrate to blood will prevnt clotting.
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Francis Peyton Rous and J.R Turner develop a citrate-glucose solution that allows blood to be stored for a few days.
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Oswald Robertson establishes the first blood depot
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Percy Lane Oliver operating a blood donor service at his house.
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Dr. Serge Yudin tested the efficiancy of transfusing humans with cadavar blood.
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Group of anesthesiologists are the first to begin storing citrated blood and utilizing it for hospitals.
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Bernard Fantus creates blood bank
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Red Cross collect 13 million units of blood plasma for victims of Pearl Harbor
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Dr. Carl W. Walter, develops a plastic bag for the collection of blood.
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Kenneth M. Brinkhous and Edward Shanbrom redissolved vast amounts of cyro, which is clottiong powers are 100x stronger than raw plasma.
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Discoveries that cryoprecipitates have better clotting power than plasma.
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Machine established that find's infected donors with hepatitis B.
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First cases of Aids established.
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Scientists Isolate the aids virus
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A series of sensative tests developed to help find infected donors.