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Eminent Cairo physician and Ibn al-Nafis discovers and describes pulmonary circulation -- the flow of blood to and from the lungs.
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Jan Swammerdam was the first person to describe red blood cells
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In England, Richard Lower performs the first recorded blood transfusion in animals
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Philip Syng preformed the first human blood transfusion.
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published a paper detaling his discovery of three main human blood groups, groups A,B,C but C is now O.
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Dr. Landsteins co workers Alfred von Decastello identified a 4th blood group called AB.
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At Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, Dr. Reuben Ottenberg performs the first transfusion using cross matching
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Dr. Ludvig Hektoen of Chicago thinks checking the blood of donors and recipients for signs of cross matching before the transfusion
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Richard Leuisohn formulates something with sodium citrate that can be mixed with blood.
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At the Rockefeller Institute in New York, Francis Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner develop a citrate-glucose solution.
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Percy Lane Oliver starts operating a blood donor service out of his home in London
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On March 23, at the Sklifosovsky Institute in Moscow, Dr. Serge Yudin is the first to test transfusing humans with cadaver blood.
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Makes the term "blood bank" to describe donations.
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In 1939, Drs. Philip Levine and R.E. Stetson uncover a unknown antibody in the blood of a woman
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In 1940, Drs. Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener discover the Rh blood group,
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Discoverd the RH blood group
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The surgeohe U.S. general at the U.S. Army and Navy the american red cross organized a blood drive.
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Dr. Paul Beesun puts together the occurance of the in 7 cases of blood transfusions.
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Unvealed the structure of hemogolbin; the protin in red blood cells.
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produced a high concentrated form of factor
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The first known case of syndrome called GRID, Gay Immundeficiancy disease is common between gay men.
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a specalist at the centers for disease control begins to think this may be blood borun
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of the NIH he identifed the virus that causes AIDS
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Millions of people were infected by AIDS from blood transfusions
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more test were made the two test that were crated were the HIV1 and the HIV2