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Anatomist Marcello Malpighi looked into the capillary system. What he founds was a network of fine vessels that connect the veins and arteries.
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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.
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The 17th century were the first to be introduced to blood transfusions. The animal-to-human blood transfusions offered no health benefits
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Anatomist William Hewson made a book with his researches on blood coagulation and blood clotting.
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The first human-to-human blood transfusion takes place. It was performed by Philip Syng Physick
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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right away, researchers Albert Hustin of Brussels and Luis Agote discover that adding sodium citrate to blood will keep it from clotting.
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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
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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.
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Percy Lane Oliver starts operating a blood donor service out of his own home.he recurits volunreers to be on a 24 hour call.
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Percy Lane Oliver starts operation a blood doning service from his home in londan all volunteers are screened for sickness before.
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Dr. Serge Yudin is the first to test the acurracy of transfering humans with cadaver blood. the procedure is succsesful on a young man.
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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.
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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.
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uses the term "blood bank" to describe the blood donation, facility he makes at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, IL, as Director of Therapeutics.
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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.
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American Red Cross arranged to organize a civilian blood donor service to collect blood plasma for the war. The first center opens
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develop a plastic bag for the collection of blood. Before this glass bottles were used to colletct and store blood
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discover the stucture of hemoglobin. They figure out that it is the structure protien that carries oxygen
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Discover that frozen and slowly thawed plasma hold high factors of Antihemophilic. these factors have a high rate in clotting
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As the blood banks start growing they begin regulating them, to improve efficiancy. they do this with the Division of Biologics Standards.
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They discovered the first cases of a syndrom within the blood. (Gay-related Immunodeficiency Disease) witch is later renamed AIDS
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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
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Robert Gallo dicovers the true cause of AIDS. which he calls HTLV III.
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an alternative to the Red Cross blood center community blood banks join together. to form American Association of Blood Banks
