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300
Herophilus of Chalcedon 300 BCE
The very first anatomist to publicly dissect human cadavers comes to a conclusion that the arteries are way thicker than the veins and that they carry blood. -
400
four roots 400 BCE
Empedocles believes that the heart is the organ of sense and that all matter has four roots -
500
A Greek person makes an observation 500 BCE
Alcmaeon of Croton notices that arteries and veins are dissimilar (by practicing dissecting on animals) -
Feb 22, 1200
The circulation of life Mid 1200's
Eminent Cairo and Ibn al-Nafis describe and discover the flow of blood to and from the lungs. -
The Veins and Art
Fabricius published a book on veins and includes the very first drawings of vein valves -
The 21-year-old dutch microscopist
Jan Swammerdam is the first person to see and describe red blood cells. -
Connecting ARTeries and Veins
Marcello Malpighi sees the capillary sytem with a microscope -
Lamb Boy
Jean-Baptiste Dennis successfully performs a blood transfusion between a boy and a lamb -
Banishment of Transfusions 1668-1670
French parliament decided to ban all transfusions that dealt with humans due to a law suit from Dr. Denis suing Antoine
mauroy's Widow -
How small is the red blood cell?
Anton gets a precise and specific desciption of red blood cells stating they were smaller than a grain of sand by 2500 times. -
Blood Coagulation
in a book by William Hewson, He states how we successfuly arrested the clotting and how he isolated fibrogen from plasma -
human to human
Philip Syng performs the first human-to-human blood transfusion -
ON the record
December 22, James Blundell performed the first official recorded human-to-human blood transfusion, the patient dies though. -
The Platelets
Sir William Osler observes what is now called Platelets -
Blood Vessels
William Osler notices the small fragments from the bone marrow form the clots in blood vessels -
A, B, and C or O?
Karl landsteiner published a paper that describes the details of the reaction of the human blood type A, B and O (use to be C) -
AB
Alfred von Decastello and Adriano Sturli identify the fourth blood group, AB. -
Check before
Ludvig Hektoen reccomends checking the blood of donors before performing a transfusion -
Cross matchin'
Reuben Ottenberg performed the first transfusion by cross matching -
Clotting no no
Two researchers find out that adding sodium citrate to blood prevented it from clotting -
longer to keep the blood
Francis rous and J.R. turner find a way to store blood for a much longer time and still be able to be used in transfusions -
Blood depot
Oswald robertson creates the first blood depot -
BLood on the GO
Percy L. Oliver creates a system in which people volunteer to donate blood and are accounted for in a log to be contacted whenever they are needed for blood. -
Collect and store
the soviets are the first to establish a system in which they collect and store blood -
Cadaver Blood
Dr. Serge Yudin is the first to test the effectiveness of tranfusing living humans with cadaver blood. -
First use in the U.S.
A group of anesthesiologists are the first to begin to store citrated blood and use it for transfusions in a hospital in the U.S. -
Blood Banks
Doctor Bernard Fantus gives the nickname "Blood
Bank" after setting up a preservation/collection facility in a hospital for blood. -
Rh
Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener discover the Rh blood type -
Liquid Plasma
Edwin Cohn invents a method to seperate different proteins from liquid plasma -
Blood plasma replaceable
Charles Drew discovers that blood plasma can be used as a substitute for whole blood which then he creates a plan to use this and sends it to the Red Cross -
Civillian Blood donor services
the first center to help with blood donations opens on february 4th and the red cross collects over 13 million in the span of the war -
Albumin
Isidor Ravdin treats victims of the Pearl Harbor attack with albumin -
AAOBB
the first meeting of the the American Association of Blood Banks holds their meeting in november during postwar time periods -
Bagman
Carl W. Walter developed a way for blood to be stored in a plastic bag which revolutionized blood collection -
Ancient Egyptians 2500 BCE
We discover that the Egyptians use to make their people bleed as a treatment.