Blood

history of blood

  • 200

    Claudius Galenus

    Claudius Galenus
    he proved that arteries contain blood and sugested that the body is made up of vines and arteries
  • Jan 1, 1200

    Ibn al-Nafis

    Ibn al-Nafis
    discovers the flow of blood to and from the lungs
  • Jan 1, 1553

    Michael Servetus

    Michael Servetus
    suggests that blood flows from one side of the heart to the other using the lungs instead of gping through the wall of the ventricles
  • Jan 1, 1555

    Andreas Vesalius

    Andreas Vesalius
    criticizes Galen in the second edition of his seven volume work detailing human anatomy
  • Fabricius

    Fabricius
    publishes his work ON THE VALVES IN VEINS in this book are the first drawings of vains
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    publishes his book ANATOMICAL TREATISE ON THE MOVEMENT OF THE HEART AND BLOOD IN ANIMALS inthis book he explains that blood circulates in the body and is pumped by the heart
  • Jan Swammerdam

    Jan Swammerdam
    is the first person to observe and describe red blood cells.
  • Marcello Malpighi

    Marcello Malpighi
    observes a system in which connets the arteries and the veins
  • Richard Lower

    Richard Lower
    performs the first blood transfusion in animals
  • Jean-Baptiste Denis

    Jean-Baptiste Denis
    transfuses a teenage boys blood with nine ounces of lamb's blood. killing the boy
  • Dr. Denis sues Antoine Mauroy's widow

    Dr. Denis sues Antoine Mauroy's widow
    England ,Rome and French goverments put a ban on all transfusions involving humans.
  • Anton van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek
    gives a description of the red blood cells, he also said how small they are "25,000 times smaller than a fine grain of sand"
  • William Hewson

    William Hewson
    wrote a book EXPERIMENTAL ENQUIRY INTO THE PROPERTIES OF THE BLOOD in this book he talks about plasma
  • Philip Syng Physick

    Philip Syng Physick
    performing the first human-to-human blood transfusion his work was not published.
  • James Blundell

    James Blundell
    performs the first recorded human-to-human blood transfusion he Using a syringe injected a patient suffering with 12 to 14 ounces of blood from several diffrent donors
  • William Osler

    William Osler
    observed that small cell fragments from the bone marrow make up clots in blood vessels called platelets
  • Karl Landsteiner

    Karl Landsteiner
    publishes a paper detailing his discovery of the three main human blood groups a,b,and o
  • Alfred von Decastello and Adriano Sturli

    Alfred von Decastello and Adriano Sturli
    identify a fourth blood group -- AB -- that causes agglutination in the red cells of both groups "A" and "B."
  • Ludvig Hektoen , Reuben Ottenberg

    Ludvig Hektoen , Reuben Ottenberg
    came up with cross matching
    he first transfusion using cross matching, and over the next several years successfully uses the procedure in 128 cases
  • the Surgeon General of the U.S. Army and Navy,

    the Surgeon General of the U.S. Army and Navy,
    agrees to organize a civilian blood donor service to collect blood plasma for the war effort.
  • Albert Hustin of Brussels and Luis Agote

    Albert Hustin of Brussels and Luis Agote
    adding sodium citrate to blood will prevent it from clotting
  • Richard Lewisohn

    Richard Lewisohn
    determines that citrated blood can be refrigerated and stored for a few days and then successfully transfused
  • Francis Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner

    Francis Peyton Rous and J.R. Turner
    develop a citrate-glucose solution that allows blood to be stored for a few weeks after collection and still remain viable for transfusion.
  • Oswald Robertson

    Oswald Robertson
    collects and stores type O blood, with citrate-glucose solution, in advance of the arrival of casualties during the Battle of Cambrai in World War I. Thereby, he establishes the first blood depot
  • Percy Lane Oliver

    Percy Lane Oliver
    He recruits volunteers to travel to give blood as needed . All volunteers are screened for disease, tested for blood type
  • Serge Yudin

    Serge Yudin
    gave bllod to people from the dead
  • A group of anesthesiologists at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN,

    A group of anesthesiologists at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN,
    are the first to begin storing blood and using it for transfusions within a hospital setting in the U.S.
  • Federico Duran-Jorda

    Federico Duran-Jorda
    storedblood for war in refgerated enviroment
  • Bernard Fantus

    Bernard Fantus
    came up with the name blood bank
  • Period: to

    Philip Levine and R.E. Stetson ,Karl Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener

    discover the Rh blood group, through experiments with the red blood cells of Rhesus monkeys, and identify the antibody found by Levine and Steston to be anti-Rh.
  • Charles Drew Edwin Cohn

    Charles Drew Edwin Cohn
    find ways to spearate protens
  • Paul Beeson

    Paul Beeson
    finds stuff in blood
  • Red Cross blood centers

    Red Cross blood centers
    form a national network of blood banks called the American Association of Blood Banks
  • Carl W. Walter

    Carl W. Walter
    comes up with the blood bags
  • Dr. Max Perutz

    Dr. Max Perutz
    starts using xrays to examin blood
  • Judith Pool

    Judith Pool
    discovers that slowly thawed frozen plasma yields deposits high in Factor VIII that means it will clot faster
  • Drs. Kenneth M. Brinkhous of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Edward Shanbrom of Hyland Laboratories

    Drs. Kenneth M. Brinkhous of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Edward Shanbrom of Hyland Laboratories
    The resulting powder's clotting power is 100 times stronger than raw plasma, easily stored in a portable vial, and can be injected with a syringe by the hemophilia patient
  • Elliot Richardson

    Elliot Richardson
    development of a test to detect the presence of hepatitis B antibodies, thereby identifying infected donors; the test is mandated by the FDA.
  • AIDS

    AIDS
    The first cases of AIDS
  • Bruce Evatt

    Bruce Evatt
    suspect that the syndrome may be a blood thing
  • Dr. Luc Montagnier

    Dr. Luc Montagnier
    isolate the virus that causes AIDS. They locate it in the swollen lymph node in the neck of a Parisian AIDS patient and label it LAV (lymphadenopathy-associated virus).
  • Robert Gallo

    Robert Gallo
    found out what causes aids
  • merica and aids

    merica and aids
    many americans are infected with aids
  • Period: to

    aids keeps goimg on

    A series of more sensitive tests are developed and implemented to screen donated blood for infectious diseases: two tests that screen for indirect evidence of hepatitis; the Human T-Lymphotropic-Virus-I-antibody (anti-HTLV-I) test; the hepatitis C test; the HIV-1 and HIV-2 antibodies test; the HIV p24 antigen test; and Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing (NAT) that directly detects the genetic material of viruses like HCV and HIV
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    dylan baubie
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