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Claudius proved arteries contained blood by dissecting and experimenting on animals.
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Eminent discovers the flow of blood to and from the lungs.
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fabricius publishes his work on the valves in veins which also featured the first drawings of vein valves.
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British physiciandiscovers that blood circulates throughout the body when pumped nby the heart.
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Swammerdam is the first person to observe and describe red blood cells.
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Lower performs the first recorded blood transfusion in animals.
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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."
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Hewson successfuly figured out the cause of clotting.
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Physick performed the first human to human blood transfusion.
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Osler observed small cell fragments that will soon be called plateletes.
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Landsteiner publishes a paper on his dicovery of the three main human blood types.
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Colleagues of Dr. landsteiner discover a fourth blood group, AB.
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Dr. Hektoen recommends checking the donors and recipients blood to avoid deaths.
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Albert Hustin and Luis Agote discover that adding sodium citrate to blood will prevent clotting.
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Francis Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner create a solution that allows blood to be storedd for a few weeks after collection.
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the soviets are the first to create a line of facilities that collect and store blood for transfusions in hospitals.
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Yudin was the first to transfuse a human with cadaver blood.
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the term "blood bank" was coined by Dr.Bernard Fantus to describe blood donation.
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Drs. Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Weiner, through experimentation with the red blood cells of rhesus monkeys, discover the Rh blood group.
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Dr. Carl W. Walter instead of putting blood in glass containers, puts blood in plastic containers for safer and cleaner transportation.
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Dr. Max Perutz, with the use of X-ray crystallography, was able to reveal the structure of hemoglobin.
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Dr. Baruch Blumberg identifies a substance on the hepatitis B virus which leads to the development of a test to identify hepatitis B antibodies.
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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.
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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.
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more tests are developed and put to use to screen donated blood for infectious diseases.
