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Discovers pulmonary circulation (the flow of blood through the lungs).
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Publishes the first drawings ow veins and their valves.
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Publishes his work on blood that circulates through the body.
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A Dutch microscopists Jan Swammerdam is the first person to observe and describe red blood cells
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Studied the capillary system
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He is the first person to preform a blood transfusion on animals. He used a goose quill and bladder to connect a dog's jugular vein to another dog's neck artery.
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Transfused a teenagee boy's blood with a lambs successfully.
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They ban the right to transfuse blood from animals to humans.
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Figured out that the red blood cell was 25,000 times smaller than a grain of sand.
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Discovered that fibrogen is a key protein of clotting.
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Philip Syng Physick was the first person to preform a human to human blood transfusion, but it was not recorded.
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He preformedthe first RECORDED human blood transfusion.
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He was the first person to discover the cell fragments in bone marrow called platelets.
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Discovers the three main human blood types; A,B, and C which was later changed to O
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Him and his colleagues combined the blood groups A and B to create a fourth blood type called AB.
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He preformed the first cross matching blood transfusion that ended up being sucessful.
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Reccomends cross-matching to a doctor about to transfuse blood.
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The two scientists find out that adding sodium citrate to blood will prevent the blood from clotting.
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Discovers that citrated blood can be refrigerated
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Establishes the first blood depot during WWI.
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Begins operating a home blood donor service at his home in London.
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He was the first person to do a blood transfusion with a cadaver and a live patient.
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A group of anesthesiologists store citrated blood and use it for transfusions.
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Creates the first "Blood Bank".
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Discovered the RH blood group.
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Figures out that blood plasma is a viable substitute foe whole blood.
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The U.S. created an organization that helps civillians in war and also it was created to collect blood plasma for war effort.
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Found a disease that is transmitted rarley through blood transfusion called, transfusion transmitted hepatitis.
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Created a plastic bag that made storaging blood more easier
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Uses X-ray technology to find the structure of hemoglobin.
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Theses two organizations were created to control blood banks.
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AIDS was discovered.
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He and his team found the reason AIDS is around. It was because of a lymph node in the neck of an infected person.
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He announces he found the reason for AIDS.
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The U.S. lisenced all the blood banks to test all patiens for SIDS before doing a blood transfusion.
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More diseases have started spreading around the U.S. and even more tests start to come into effect.
