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Claudius Galenus "discovers" that blood is made in the livers. He also claims that arteries and veins have different functions.
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Eminent Cairo discovers pulminary circulation, and how it occurs.
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Michael Servetus, Spanish physician, suggests that the blood goes from one side of the heart to the other through the lungs.
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Galus is criticized on his work by Andreas Vesalius in his second edition of DE FABRICA.
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Fabricius publishes the book "On the Valves in Veins" giving the first look at what veins look like.
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William Harvey suggests that blood circulates the body, and is pumped by the heart.
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Dutch microscopist Jan Swammerdam was the first person to look at and describe what red blood cells look like.
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Italian Anatomist Marcello Malpighi uses a microscope to study the capillaries for the first time in history.
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Richard Lower performs the first blood transfusion in animals. He connect an artery of one dog to another, bring the other dog bacl to life.
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The French Parliament bans all blood transfusions on humans, followed by England and Rome.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek gives a depper description of red blood cells saying they're "25,000 times smaller than a fine grain of sand."
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William Hewson describes his research in blood coagulation. He also describes his success in seperating fibrogen from plasma.
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James blundell performs the first recorded human-to-human blood transfusion,
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Sir William Osler observes some small "cell fragments" that will later be known as platelets.
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Carl Landsteiner, Austrian physician, discovers that there are diferent types of blood: A, B, and O
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Dr. Hektoen recommends the checking of donors' blood to make sure they are compatible with the person who will be receiving it.
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Dr. Ottenburg performs the first cross blood transfusion, perminantely eliminating transfusion reactions.
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Dr. Richard Lewisohn determines the best percentage of citrate to be mixed with blood is .2%. This blood mixed with citrate can be stored for a few days, and still be used for transfusions.
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2 doctors; Francis Payton Rous and J.R. Turner make a solution of citrate and glucose that enables blood to be stored for a few weeks and still be used for a blood transfusion.
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Dr. Oswald Robertson stores type-O blood with the citrate-glucose solution in advance for the injured soldiers of WWI making the first blood depot.
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Percy begins a volunteer progranm for blood donations. All donors are screened and tested for disease.
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Dr. Serge Yudin is the first person to ever use blood from a dead body to transfuse it into a man, succesfuly bringing him back to life.
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A group of anasthesiologists are the first ones to store citarted blood in large quantities.
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Federico Duran-Jorda established the Barcelona Blood Transfusion Service which helped to get blood to wounded soldiers during the Spanish Civil War.
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During WWII, The American Red Cross does it's part to help the war by collecting over 13million units of blood.
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The blood banks of America come together to create the American Association of Blood Banks.
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Dr. Carl W. Walter invents a plastic bag to be used to store blood, changing the storage of blood from bottles to bags.
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Using x-ray crystallogrophy, Dr. Perutz finds the function of hemoglobin.
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Dr. Juith Pool discovers cryo, which helps hemophiliacs stop bleeding since cryo has much more clotting power than platelets.
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Jean Baptiste-Denis performs a blood transfusion on a teenage boy suffering from a chronic fever, giving him 9 ounces of lamb's blood.
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Dr. Baruch Blumberg discovers that patients infected with hepititis B carry a substance that produces antibodies.
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The disease name GRID (Gay Related Immunodeficiency Disease) was was diagnosed, seen mostly in homosexual me. It is later renamed AIDS.
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Dr. Bruce Evatt sees that hemophiliacs are common in GRID, thus, coming to the conclusion that it is a blood-born disease.
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Dr. Robert Gallo announces that he has found the virus that causes AIDS.
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The U.S. government licenses the ELISA test, which identfies if blood donors are infected with the AIDS virus.
