History of Blood

By ladyknights10
  • Feb 21, 1200

    Eminent Cairo

    Eminent Cairo physician and Ibn al-Nafis discovers and describes pulmonary circulation -- the flow of blood to and from the lungs.

  • Jan Swammerdam

    Jan Swammerdam was the first person to describe red blood cells

  • England

    In England, Richard Lower performs the first recorded blood transfusion in animals

  • Philip Syng Physick

    Philip Syng preformed the first human blood transfusion.

  • Karl Landsteinel

    published a paper detaling his discovery of three main human blood groups, groups A,B,C but C is now O.

  • Dr. Landstein

    Dr. Landsteins co workers Alfred von Decastello identified a 4th blood group called AB.

  • New York

    At Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, Dr. Reuben Ottenberg performs the first transfusion using cross matching

  • Dr. Ludvig

    Dr. Ludvig Hektoen of Chicago thinks checking the blood of donors and recipients for signs of cross matching before the transfusion

  • Dr. Richard Leuisohn

    Richard Leuisohn formulates something with sodium citrate that can be mixed with blood.

  • Rockefeller

    At the Rockefeller Institute in New York, Francis Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner develop a citrate-glucose solution.

  • Percy Lane Oliver

    Percy Lane Oliver starts operating a blood donor service out of his home in London

  • March 23

    On March 23, at the Sklifosovsky Institute in Moscow, Dr. Serge Yudin is the first to test transfusing humans with cadaver blood.

  • Dr. Fentis

    Makes the term "blood bank" to describe donations.

  • 1939

    In 1939, Drs. Philip Levine and R.E. Stetson uncover a unknown antibody in the blood of a woman

  • Dr Karl Landsteiner

    In 1940, Drs. Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener discover the Rh blood group,

  • Dr. Karl Landsteir

    Discoverd the RH blood group

  • U.S. Army

    The surgeohe U.S. general at the U.S. Army and Navy the american red cross organized a blood drive.

  • Dr. Paul

    Dr. Paul Beesun puts together the occurance of the in 7 cases of blood transfusions.

  • Dr. Max Peruiz

    Unvealed the structure of hemogolbin; the protin in red blood cells.

  • Dr.Kenneth M. Binkhouse

    produced a high concentrated form of factor

  • GRID

    The first known case of syndrome called GRID, Gay Immundeficiancy disease is common between gay men.

  • Dr Bruce Evatt

    a specalist at the centers for disease control begins to think this may be blood borun

  • Dr. robert Gallo

    of the NIH he identifed the virus that causes AIDS

  • Infected

    Millions of people were infected by AIDS from blood transfusions

  • HIV1

    more test were made the two test that were crated were the HIV1 and the HIV2