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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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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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Physician Eminent Cairo and author Ibn describe how the blood flows to and from the lungs.
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William Harvey writes how the blood pumps from the heart.
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Jan Swammerdam was the first to observe red blood cells.
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The first human to human blood transfusion was done. Philadelphian physician Philip Syng Physick was the one who did it.
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Sir William Osler discovers the small cell from the bone marrow. They're known as platelets.
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Karl Landsteiner discovered that there are 3 types of blood, type A, B, and C. It later changes to O.
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Later Alfred von Decastello and Adriano Sturli discover a fourth blood type, AB. Its a blend of A and B blood cells.
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Dr. Reuben Ottenberg performs the first transfusion using cross matching. Its been successfully done many times, eliminating transfusion reactions.
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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.
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Dr. Oswald Robertson stores type O blood, with citrate-glucose solution, he established the first blood depot.
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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.
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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.
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Federico Duran-Jorda collects blood, puts them by blood group, keeps it in refrigerator and transports to hospitals during the Spanish Civil War.
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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.
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Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener discover the Rh blood group. While experimenting the red blood cells from monkeys, antibody found to be anti-Rh.
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Edwin Cohn invents a method to separate the different proteins. The plasma was mixed with the solvent ethyl alcohol and centrifuged.
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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.
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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.
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X-rays you can reveal atoms. Also can see the protein within red blood cells that carry oxygen.
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Greek philosopher Empedocles beileves that blood spreads threw the body, from the heart.