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throught his study of anatomy , succesful treatment of patients , and voluminous writings on the medicine, Claudius Galenus ,known as Galen becomes a very important physicans in history.
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Aristitle believs that the heart is the central organ of the body and therefor the seat of the soul.
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Empedocles a greek philsopher who believs that the organ of sense is the heart and theorizes that all matter is comprimed of four roots earth,water,air,and fire
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this is when the first blood flow was found and dicovered in the body
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Eminent Cairo physician and author Ibh Al Nafis discovers and describes pulinonary circulation, the flow of the blood to and from the lungs
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Fabricios the antaomists from Padoa , publishes his work on the values on veins and he does the first drawing of vein values.
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek microscopicts provides a more precise description of the red blood cellls and says that they are 25,000 times smaller than a fine grain of sand.
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Jan Suvammerdam a 21 year old , it through to be the first to observe red blood cells
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Macello Malpighi used a rudimentary microscope , obsevers tha capillary sytem , the networks of the fine vessels that connect to the veins.
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Drs. Richard Lower and Edmund King give Arthur Coga a transfusion of several ounces of sheep blood
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In his book Experental Enquiry Into The Proporties Of The Bood, British anatomist William Hewson details his research on blood coagulation,
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A footnote in a medical journal credits Philadelphia physician Philip Syng Physick with performing the first human-to-human blood transfusion, although his work is not published
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physiologist James Blundell performs the first recorded human-to-human blood transfusion. Using his tools , he injects a patient suffering from internal bleeding with 12 to 14 ounces of blood from several people. The patient dies after initially showing improvement.
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Austrian physician Karl Landsteiner publishes a paper detailing his discovery of the three main human blood groups -- A, B, and C, which he later changes to O. ABRH+ is later found and so in ABRH-.
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Dr. Landsteiner's colleagues Alfred von Decastello and Adriano Sturli identify a fourth blood group -- AB -- that causes agglutination in the red cells of both groups "A" and "B."
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Rockfeller Institute in New York ,Francis Peyton Rous and J.R Turner devoloped a glucose solution that allows blood to be stored a few weeks after collection and stilll remain viable for transfussion
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Percy Lane Oliver begins operateing on a blood doner service in london, he had also recruited people to work with him 24 hours of the day and would travel to local hospitals to give blood.
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The Soviets are the first to establish a network of facilities to collect and store blood for use in transfusions at hospitals.
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Dr. Bernard Fantus coins the term "blood bank" to describe the blood donation, collection, and preservation facility he starts at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, IL, as Director of Therapeutics
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, Drs. Philip Levine and R.E. Stetson discover an antibody in the blood of a women who has given birth to a stiilborn, and is inheritied from the fatherwich causees the antibody production in the mother
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in this year we had collected over 13 million of the people in the war . Dr. Isidor Ravdin had treated the men that were injured in the attack on pearl harbor.
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as the alternative to the red Cross blood centers being set up across the country in the postwar period and leads us to the direction of indepenence
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The first cases of a syndrome initially called GRID (Gay-related Immunodeficiency Disease), due to its prevalence among gay men, are reported. It is later renamed AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).
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Robert Gallo has discovered the virus that caused aids.
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after dozens of peopl are infected with aids from a blood transfussion. the first blood screaning test found presence of the HIV antibodies.
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A series of more sensitive tests are developed and implemented to screen donated blood for infectious diseases: two tests that screen for indirect evidence of hepatitis; the Human T-Lymphotropic-Virus-I-antibody (anti-HTLV-I) test; the hepatitis C test; the HIV-1 and HIV-2 antibodies test.