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Jan 1, 1200
Pulmonary Circulation
The flow of blood to and from thr lungs. Discovered and described by Physician Eminent Cairo and Author Ibn al-Nafis. -
Period: Jan 1, 1200 to
Important history dealing with Blood Cells
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"The Valves in Veins"
Published by Fabricius an anatomist from Padua. With also including the first drawings of vein valves. -
Jan Swammerdam
A 21-year old dutch microscopist who is beleived to be the first to observe and describe red blood cells. -
First to observe the capillary system
Marcello Malpighi an Italian anatomist observed the capillary system, a network of fine vessels that connect the arteries and the veins (using a rudimentary microscope), -
Richard Lower
Performed with a crude syringe made from good quill and bladder, does the first animal blood transfusion recorded. -
Looking at RBC's
Anton van Leeuwenhoek not knowing the work of Swammerdam and Malpighi, is a Dutch linen draper turned microscopist, provided a more precise description of red blood cells, aswell as approximating their size "25,000 times smaller than a fine grain of sand." -
Physician Philip Syng Physick
A physician believed to perform the first human-to-human blood transfusion, work was never published. -
James blundell
an eminent british obstetrician and physiologist performed the first recorded human-to-human blood transfusion but was unsucessful. -
Discovery of the different blood types
Karl Landsteiner discovers the different blood types A,B and C but later on refering type C blood as type O blood instead. -
The forth Blood type
Alfred von Decastello and Adriano Sturli colleagues of Dr.Landsteiner discover a forth blood called AB Blood. -
Preventing blood clotts
Dr.Hustin publishes his findings regarding if adding sodium citrate to blood it will prevent it from clotting. -
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The Impact on War
The war was a big part in collecting blood, storing blood, and then using the stored blood for blood tansfusions for wounded soldiers in the war. -
Collect and Store
March 23, Dr. Serge Yudin at the Sklifosovsky Institute in Moscow is the first to test the efficacy of transfusing humans with cadaver blood. The Soviets then become the first to establish facilities to collect and store blood for hospitals that conduct blood tansfusions. -
The term "Blood Bank"
Dr. Bernard Fantus uses this term to describe the blood donation, collection, and preservation facility he creates at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. -
American Association of Blood Banks
Community blood centers around the nation that joined together forming the AABB. -
The Revolution in the Collection of Blood
Dr. Carl W. Walter replaces glass containers used to store blood with plastic. While glass being more fragile and prone to contamination. -
"AIDS"
The first cases of a syndrome originally called GRID (Gay-related Immunodeficiency Disease). Later renamed AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) generated by gay men.
