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Sep 4, 1200
The beginning
Eminent Cairo and Ibn al-Nafis discover pulmonary circulation. -
Work of the Heart
William Harvey explains blood is pumped by the heart and circulates through the body. -
Red Blood Cells
Jan Swammerdam is the first person to observe red blood cells. -
Sheep Blood
Richard Lower and Edmund King give blood tranfusion using sheeps blood, the patient survives. -
Human to Human transfusion
Philip Syng Physick performs the first human to human transfusion but it was unpublished. -
Human to Human no.2
the first recorded human to human blood tranfusion performed by James Blundell. -
Platelets
sir William Oslar observes small cell fragments in bone marrow which will later be called Platelets. -
Blood Groups
Karl Landsteiner discovers three blood groups, A, B, and O. -
the Fourth Group
Landsteiners colleagues, Alfred Von Decastello and Andrian Sturli find fourth blood group AB. -
Sodium Citrate
Albert Hustin and Luis Agote discovered adding sodium citrate will prevent blood clotting. -
More Sodium Citrate
Dr.Richard Lewisohn found out that .2 percent sodium citrate can be added without harm. -
Storing blood
Francis Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner found a way to store blood using citrate-glucose solution. -
facilities for blood
Soviets are first to establish places to collect and store blood for hospitals. -
Mayo clinic.
The U.S. begins storing citrated blood and utilizing it for transfusions starting with the mayo clinic in Rochester, MN. -
"Blood Banks"
Dr. Bernard Fantus describes blood donation, collection, and preservation as "blood banks". -
Rh
Drs. Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener discover Rh blood group. -
The War effort
Red Cross collects blood for the war effort. 13 million units are colected. -
American Association of blood banks
The American Association of Blood Banks is formed. The first meeeting was held in Dallas. -
Plastic Bags
Dr. Carl Walter creates plastic bags used to collect blood. before this they used glass. -
Hemoglobin
Dr. Max Perutz unravels the structure of Hemoglobin, which carries Oxygen. -
Infected Donors?
Dr. Baruch Blumberg finds substance on top of Hep B. virus. this leads to the development of a test to detect the presence of Hep B antibodies, thereby identifying infected donors. -
AIDS
first cases of AIDS are reported. -
HTLV-III
the virus that causes AIDS is HTLV-III discovered by Dr. Robert Gallo. -
The ELISA test
the ELISA test is licensed by the U.S. government to detect diseases. -
Blood donation becomes safer
More tests are created to find infectious diseases in blood, anti-HTLV-I, Hep C test, Hiv-I, and Hiv-2 antibodies test, Hiv p24 antigen test, and NAT.
