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Vessles and capillary system
Anatomist Marcello Malpighi looked into the capillary system. What he founds was a network of fine vessels that connect the veins and arteries. -
Animal blood transfusions
Drs. Richard Lower and Edmund King give someone a transfusion of several ounces of sheep's blood. They found that the patient recovered very well. -
Status Quo Under Fire
The 17th century were the first to be introduced to blood transfusions. The animal-to-human blood transfusions offered no health benefits -
Properties of the blood
Anatomist William Hewson made a book with his researches on blood coagulation and blood clotting. -
Human-to-human
The first human-to-human blood transfusion takes place. It was performed by Philip Syng Physick -
First recorded human-to-human blood transfusions
obstetrician and physiologist James Blundell follows through with the first recorded human-to-human blood transfusion with a syringe, he injects12 to 14 ounces of blood from different doners. -
clots within blood vessles
William Osler figures out that small cell particles from the bone marrow make up clots formed in blood vessels.The fragments will soom be called platelets. -
Fourth blood group
Dr. Landsteiner's colleagues Alfred von Decastello and Adriano Sturli discover the fourth blood group. That causes agglutination in the red cells of both groups "A" and "B." -
cross matching prevention
Dr. Ludvig Hektoen of Chicago rstarted to recomend checking the blood of donors and patients for signs of incompatibility before fllowing through with the transfusion. -
Blood clotting prevention
right away, researchers Albert Hustin of Brussels and Luis Agote discover that adding sodium citrate to blood will keep it from clotting. -
blood preservation
Francis Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner creat a citrate-glucose solution that lets blood be stored for a few weeks after collection and still stay usable -
the first blood depot.
Dr. Oswald Robertson collects and stores type O blood, before all casualties during the Battle of Cambrai in World War I. therefore he establishes the first blood depot. -
blood donor service
Percy Lane Oliver starts operating a blood donor service out of his own home.he recurits volunreers to be on a 24 hour call. -
blood doner service
Percy Lane Oliver starts operation a blood doning service from his home in londan all volunteers are screened for sickness before. -
humans with cadaver blood.
Dr. Serge Yudin is the first to test the acurracy of transfering humans with cadaver blood. the procedure is succsesful on a young man. -
hospital blood transfusion center
anesthesiologists at the Mayo Clinic started a transfusion service for two years, they were first to begin storing blood and using it for transfusions with a hospital. -
distributes blood to war
created the Barcelona Blood-Transfusion Service. The service takes blood, tests it, storesit by blood group, preserves it in refrigerators and takes it to front line hospitals during the Spanish Civil War. -
blood donation- blood bank
uses the term "blood bank" to describe the blood donation, facility he makes at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, IL, as Director of Therapeutics. -
unknown antibody
discover an unknown antibody in the blood of a a women who gave birth to a stillborn child factor in the blood of the fetus, recived from the father. -
american red cross
American Red Cross arranged to organize a civilian blood donor service to collect blood plasma for the war. The first center opens -
carrying blood (blood bags)
develop a plastic bag for the collection of blood. Before this glass bottles were used to colletct and store blood -
Hemoglobin
discover the stucture of hemoglobin. They figure out that it is the structure protien that carries oxygen -
Plasma
Discover that frozen and slowly thawed plasma hold high factors of Antihemophilic. these factors have a high rate in clotting -
blood banks- (improved)
As the blood banks start growing they begin regulating them, to improve efficiancy. they do this with the Division of Biologics Standards. -
syndroms within the blood
They discovered the first cases of a syndrom within the blood. (Gay-related Immunodeficiency Disease) witch is later renamed AIDS -
AIDS
a specialist in hemophilia at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. they begin to find facts that contribute to the syndrom being blood born -
Cause of AIDS
Robert Gallo dicovers the true cause of AIDS. which he calls HTLV III. -
American Association of Blood Banks
an alternative to the Red Cross blood center community blood banks join together. to form American Association of Blood Banks
