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Egyptians credited with record of blood from entombed pharohs
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Through his dissection and experimentation of animals, Galen first hypothesized arteries and veins were two very different organs. His ideas formed the core of what scientists conscider as "modern medicine."
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Ibn al-Nafis is credited with the discovery of the pulmonary circulation system and describes the flow of blood to and from the lungs.
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Sir Michael Servetus refutes Galen's theory suggesting that blood flows from one side of the heart to the other through the lungs instead of through the wall between the ventricles.
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Fabricius de Padua, publishes ON THE VALVES IN VEINS, with first credited drawings of vein valves.
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William Harvey publishes his masterwork Exercitation Anatomica De Motu Cordis Et Sanguinis In Animalibus in which he explains that blood circulates in the body and is pumped by the heart.
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Jan Swammerdam credited with first observation and decription of blood.
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Marcello Malpighi uses primitive microscope to observe the capillary system.
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Richard Lower performs the first recorded blood transfusion in animals. He connects the jugular of a bleeding dog to the neck artery of second dog to resuscitate the first.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek approximates size of red blood cells down to 1/25000 the size of a grain of sand.
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William Hewson details blood clots In his book Experimental Enquiry Into the Properties of the Blood and if first credited with identifying what is now commonly known as fibrogen.
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James Blundell performs the first recorded human-to-human blood transfusion using a syringe.
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Sir William Osler observes platelets, small cell fragments from the bone marrow make up the bulk of clots formed in blood vessels.
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Sarah Barton establishes American Red Cross.
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Author Bram Stoker creates arguably the most famous horror story about vampires.
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Karl Landsteiner identifies three main human blood groups as A B and C, later changed to O.
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Egyptians first record blood of entombed Pharoes
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Alfred von Decastello and Adriano Sturli, Karl Landsteiner's compadres identify a fourth blood grooup observing agglutinizqation in both A and B tubes.
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Dr. Reuben Ottenberg performs the first transfusion using cross matching, eliminating most forms of transfusion reactions.
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Dr. Richard Lewisohn formulates the mixture of sodium citrate that prevents clotting that cuses no harm to patient
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Dr. Richard Weil determines that citrated blood can be refrigerated and stored for a few days and then successfully transfused.
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Oswald Robertson, no relation to Duck Dynasty cast, establishes the first blood depot
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Percy Lane Oliver begins operates a blood donor service out of his home in London. He recruits 24/7 vollunteers who screen patients for diseases.
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American Red Cross established nationwide.
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Dr. Serge Yudin is the first to test the efficacy of transfusing humans with cadaver blood
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Federico Duran-Jorda refrigerates blood and transports with refrigerated vehicles during the Spanish Civil War.
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Drs. Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener discover the Rh blood group through experiments with the red blood cells of Rhesus monkeys.
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Charles Drew develops techniques to sepparate and preserve blood plasma, which he finds to be a viable substitute for whole blood
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Philadelphia surgeon Dr. Isidor Ravdin albumin to increase blood volume to treat victims of Pearl Harbor attack.
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Carl W. Walter develops viable replacement for glass bottles through the use of plastic bags.
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Dr. Max Perutz working at Cambridge University, England, is able to unravel the structure of hemoglobin using his awesome x-ray chystallography skills.
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Drs. Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier credited with first discoveryof AIDS prevelent amongst Gay men. Renamed AIDS after previousy being titled GRID.
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Dr. Luc Montagnier's lab in France isolates the AIDS virus.
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Dr. Robert Gallo announces that he's identified the virus known as AIDS, which he calls HTLV III (human T-cell lymphotropic virus)
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The first blood-screening test to detect the presence or absence of HIV antibodies developed after thousands of Americans infected adopted by American blood banks and plasma centers.
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Using DNA from the blood of a fossilized mosquito, scientists at Jurassic Park successfully clone dinosaurs.
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Tests developed and implemented to screen donated blood for infectious diseases: (anti-HTLV-I) and the (NAT)
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Stephanie Meyer writes Twilight, the first book of the saga
