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21 year old Dutch microscopist was the first to observe and describe red blood cells
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Richard Lower of England is the first to perform blood transfusion on animals. Along with Christopher Wren, connects jugular vein of a dog, blends to a neck of another dog
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Dutch microscopist, Anton van Leeuwenhoek releases a better description of red blood cells. Telling the aproxamate size which is 25,000 times smaller than a grain of sand
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Philip Syng Physick was a Philadelphia physician, he performed the first human-to-human blood transfusion. But unfortunatlly his work was never recorded
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December 22, James Blundell demostrates first ever recored blood transfution with a a patient thats suffering from internal bleeding with 12 to 14 ounces of blood from several donors. The patient later died
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The fourth blood group --AB-- was identified and causes agglutination in the red cells of both groups "A" and "B."
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In April Dr. Hustin published the work of his and researcher Luis Agote of adding sodium citrate to blood will prevent it from clotting.
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The first person to ever begin a blood donerr operating business is Percy Lane Oliver. He gathered volunteers to be on a 24 hour on call to go to the hospital and test for matches of blood type.
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People at the Mayo Clinics were the first to begin storing citrated blood and utilizing it for transfusions in hospitals through out the country
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Dr. Bernard Fantus creates Cook County Hospital in Chicago, IL to build blood donations and prevent facility
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Surgeon General of the U.S. Army and Navy, the American Red Cross opens a clinic for civilains can collect blood plasma for the war effort. They recieve over 13 million units of blood
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The idea of storing blood in plastic bags insteaad of bottles was thought of by Carl W. Walter
