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Claudius Galenus
Claudius proved arteries contained blood by dissecting and experimenting on animals. -
Aug 7, 1200
Eminent Cairo
Eminent discovers the flow of blood to and from the lungs. -
Fabricius
fabricius publishes his work on the valves in veins which also featured the first drawings of vein valves. -
Blood Circulation
British physiciandiscovers that blood circulates throughout the body when pumped nby the heart. -
Jan Swammerdam
Swammerdam is the first person to observe and describe red blood cells. -
Richard Lower
Lower performs the first recorded blood transfusion in animals. -
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Leeuwenhoek makes a clearer observation of red blood cells and approximated their size to be "25,000 times smaller than a fine grain of sand." -
William Hewson
Hewson successfuly figured out the cause of clotting. -
Philip Syng Physick
Physick performed the first human to human blood transfusion. -
Sir William Osler
Osler observed small cell fragments that will soon be called plateletes. -
Karl Landsteiner
Landsteiner publishes a paper on his dicovery of the three main human blood types. -
Decastello and Sturli
Colleagues of Dr. landsteiner discover a fourth blood group, AB. -
Dr. Ludvig hektoen
Dr. Hektoen recommends checking the donors and recipients blood to avoid deaths. -
Hustin and Agote
Albert Hustin and Luis Agote discover that adding sodium citrate to blood will prevent clotting. -
Rous and Turner
Francis Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner create a solution that allows blood to be storedd for a few weeks after collection. -
the soviets and transfusions
the soviets are the first to create a line of facilities that collect and store blood for transfusions in hospitals. -
Dr. Serge Yudin
Yudin was the first to transfuse a human with cadaver blood. -
Blood Bank
the term "blood bank" was coined by Dr.Bernard Fantus to describe blood donation. -
Landsteiner and wiener
Drs. Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Weiner, through experimentation with the red blood cells of rhesus monkeys, discover the Rh blood group. -
blood containers
Dr. Carl W. Walter instead of putting blood in glass containers, puts blood in plastic containers for safer and cleaner transportation. -
Hemoglobin
Dr. Max Perutz, with the use of X-ray crystallography, was able to reveal the structure of hemoglobin. -
Dr. Blumberg
Dr. Baruch Blumberg identifies a substance on the hepatitis B virus which leads to the development of a test to identify hepatitis B antibodies. -
AIDS
what used to be called GRID (Gay-related immunodeficiency disease), was later renamed AIDS (Acquired immune deficiency syndrome) after the frst reports of the disease. -
identifying AIDS
After dozens of Americans are infected with AIDS, the first blood-screening test to identify HIV antibodies, also called the ELISA test, is universally adopted by American blood banks and plasma centers. -
More Tests
more tests are developed and put to use to screen donated blood for infectious diseases.
