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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.
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Empedocles believes that the heart is the organ of sense and that all matter has four roots
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Alcmaeon of Croton notices that arteries and veins are dissimilar (by practicing dissecting on animals)
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Eminent Cairo and Ibn al-Nafis describe and discover the flow of blood to and from the lungs.
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Fabricius published a book on veins and includes the very first drawings of vein valves
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Jan Swammerdam is the first person to see and describe red blood cells.
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Marcello Malpighi sees the capillary sytem with a microscope
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Jean-Baptiste Dennis successfully performs a blood transfusion between a boy and a lamb
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French parliament decided to ban all transfusions that dealt with humans due to a law suit from Dr. Denis suing Antoine
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Anton gets a precise and specific desciption of red blood cells stating they were smaller than a grain of sand by 2500 times.
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in a book by William Hewson, He states how we successfuly arrested the clotting and how he isolated fibrogen from plasma
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Philip Syng performs the first human-to-human blood transfusion
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December 22, James Blundell performed the first official recorded human-to-human blood transfusion, the patient dies though.
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Sir William Osler observes what is now called Platelets
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William Osler notices the small fragments from the bone marrow form the clots in blood vessels
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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)
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Alfred von Decastello and Adriano Sturli identify the fourth blood group, AB.
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Ludvig Hektoen reccomends checking the blood of donors before performing a transfusion
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Reuben Ottenberg performed the first transfusion by cross matching
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Two researchers find out that adding sodium citrate to blood prevented it from clotting
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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
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Oswald robertson creates the first blood depot
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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.
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the soviets are the first to establish a system in which they collect and store blood
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Dr. Serge Yudin is the first to test the effectiveness of tranfusing living humans with cadaver blood.
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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.
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Doctor Bernard Fantus gives the nickname "Blood
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Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener discover the Rh blood type
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Edwin Cohn invents a method to seperate different proteins from liquid plasma
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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
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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
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Isidor Ravdin treats victims of the Pearl Harbor attack with albumin
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the first meeting of the the American Association of Blood Banks holds their meeting in november during postwar time periods
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Carl W. Walter developed a way for blood to be stored in a plastic bag which revolutionized blood collection
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We discover that the Egyptians use to make their people bleed as a treatment.