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Claudius Galenus
Claudius Galenus proves the arteries have blood. he believes blood forms the liver and the blood from there goes threw the body. -
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Human dissection
Greek anatomist Alexandria was one of the first to dissect a human. She said arteries are thicker than veins and carry blood. -
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Lung blood
Physician Eminent Cairo and author Ibn describe how the blood flows to and from the lungs. -
Pump it
William Harvey writes how the blood pumps from the heart. -
blood cells
Jan Swammerdam was the first to observe red blood cells. -
Blood to blood
The first human to human blood transfusion was done. Philadelphian physician Philip Syng Physick was the one who did it. -
Platelets
Sir William Osler discovers the small cell from the bone marrow. They're known as platelets. -
Blood types
Karl Landsteiner discovered that there are 3 types of blood, type A, B, and C. It later changes to O. -
AB blood type
Later Alfred von Decastello and Adriano Sturli discover a fourth blood type, AB. Its a blend of A and B blood cells. -
Cross matching transfusion
Dr. Reuben Ottenberg performs the first transfusion using cross matching. Its been successfully done many times, eliminating transfusion reactions. -
Frozen blood
Dr. Richard Lewisohn says sodium citrate can be mixed with donor blood to prevent concretion. The blood can be refrigerated a few days and can be transfused. -
Oswald Robertson
Dr. Oswald Robertson stores type O blood, with citrate-glucose solution, he established the first blood depot. -
Volunteers
Percy Lane Oliver recruits volunteers who travel to local hospitals to give blood. They are checked for disease, check their blood type, they're quickly contacted when blood is needed. -
Ouch
Dr. Serge Yudin, first to test transfusing humans with cadaver blood. He injects with a 420 cc of blood on a boy who tried to cut his writs open. -
Spanish civil transports
Federico Duran-Jorda collects blood, puts them by blood group, keeps it in refrigerator and transports to hospitals during the Spanish Civil War. -
Unknown antibody
Drs. Philip Levine and R.E. Stetson discover an unknown antibody in the blood of a mother. It was inherited from the father, the antibody passed to the mother. -
Rh blood
Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener discover the Rh blood group. While experimenting the red blood cells from monkeys, antibody found to be anti-Rh. -
New methond
Edwin Cohn invents a method to separate the different proteins. The plasma was mixed with the solvent ethyl alcohol and centrifuged. -
Helpers
General of the U.S. Army and Navy and Red Cross blood did and oranization to get donors to donate blood for soldiers. He treated his pearl harbor victims with this blood. -
An organization
Red Cross blood set up the American Association of Blood Bank. Its when community blood banks join together to form a national network of blood banks. -
x ray
X-rays you can reveal atoms. Also can see the protein within red blood cells that carry oxygen. -
Empedocles believes
Greek philosopher Empedocles beileves that blood spreads threw the body, from the heart.