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Eminent Cario discoveres the flow of blood to and from the lungs.
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the book "ON THE VALVES IN VEINS" is published by Fabricus and it gives detailed descriptions and illustrations on veins.
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William Harvey publishes his masterwork EXERCITATIO ANATOMICA DE MOTU CORDIS ET SANGUINIS IN ANIMALIBUS in which he explains that blood circulates within the body and is pumped by the heart.
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Jan Swammerdam is the first person to discover red blood cells.
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Marcello Malpighi discovers that arteries and veins are connected through a capulary system.
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Richard Lower performs the first recorded blood transfusion in animals.
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Dr. Denis sues Antoine Mauroy's widow in 1668 for slandering his reputation.
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a footnote in a medical journal describes the first "human to human" blood transfusion.
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James Blundell preforms the first transfusion. He uses a syringe to inject blood from multiple donors into the patients and before the patient died, he showed improvement.
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William Osler discovers platelets in blood which will lead to a further understanding of blood clotting
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Karl Landsteiner theorized that there were three different blood types. he originally labeled them. A, B and C.
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Blood donors are now being checked to see if they are healthy before donating blood.
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At Rockefeller Institute, a citrate-glucose solution is created to help store blood and keep it fresh for future transfusions
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Percy Oliver creates his own blood donation center. he screens people for disease and keeps all the names in a call log so he could gain quick access to them.
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the first test of transfusing humans with cadaver blood. He successfully resuscitates a young man who's slashed both his wrists attempting suicide.
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A group of anesthesiologists at the Mayo Clinic are the first to begin storing citrated blood and utilizing it for transfusions within a hospital setting in the U.S.
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Barcelona Blood Service created to store and deliver blood to paople in need of transfusion.
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Plasma of Britain campaign created to supply britain with blood during WWII. a substitute for plasma was being synthesised to create more blood
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JAMA (the JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION), links the occurrence of jaundice in seven cases to blood or plasma transfusions the patients receive a few months prior,
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A special plastic bag was created to prevent contamination and to keep the blood safe and more durible.
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X-rays are used to unravel the structure of hemoglobin, the protein within red blood cells that carries oxygen.
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Elliot Richardson transfers the responsibility of regulating the blood banking industry from the Division of Biologics Standards (DBS) to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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Dr. Bruce Evatt starts to suspect that hemophilia is blood born and presents his theories at a meeting of a group of the U.S. Public Health Service in July.
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Dr. Robert Gallo at NIH announces that he's identified the virus that causes AIDS, which is called HTLV III
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More sensitive tests are developed and implemented to screen donated blood for infectious diseases like hepatitis and T-Lymphotropic-Virus-I-antibody.