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130 CE - 200 CE - by Dissecting and experimenting on animals, he proves that arteries contain blood, and blood forms in the liver and travels through the veins to all parts of the body and passes between the ventricles through pores in the septum.
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BCE - Egytians started treating the injured by making them bleed.Tomb pictures show drawings off patients bleeding from the neck and feet
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Herophilus was the first Greek anatomist to openly dissect humans. He theorized that arteries were thicker than veins, and the arteries carried the blood. -
350 BCE - Greek philosopher Aristotle believes that the heart is the central organ of the body. and the heart is a three chambered organ, even in humans.
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mid - 1200 al-Nafis discovers and describes pulmonary circulation -- the flow of blood to and from the lungs.
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Fabricius publishes his work ON THE VALVES IN VEINS, featuring the first drawings of vein valves
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British physician William Harvey publishes his masterwork EXERCITATIO ANATOMICA DE MOTU CORDIS ET SANGUINIS IN ANIMALIBUS (ANATOMICAL TREATISE ON THE MOVEMENT OF THE HEART AND BLOOD IN ANIMALS), in which he explains that blood circulates within the body and is pumped by the heart.
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Jan Swammerdam, a 21-year-old Dutch microscopist, is thought to be the first person to observe and describe red blood cells.
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Richard Lower performs his first blood transfusion in animals. he uses a crude syringe made of goose quill and bladder, he connects the jugular vein of a dog he's bled to the neck artery of second dog, resuscitating the former.
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Jean-Baptiste Denis transfuses a teenage boy suffering from a persistent fever with nine ounces of lamb's blood. He attaches the lamb's carotid artery to a vein in the boy's forearm, without the patient suffering any negative consequences.
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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek is able to give an idea of the size of a red blood cell. As he states, it is about "25,000 times smaller than a fine grain of sand."
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William Hewson features in his book his research on blood coagulation. He includes a substance labeled "coagulable lymph" which is now known as fibrogen.
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Philips Syng Physick performs the first human-to-human blood transfusion
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eminent British obstetrician and physiologist James Blundell performs the first recorded human-to-human blood transfusion. Using a syringe, he injects a patient suffering from internal bleeding with 12 to 14 ounces of blood from several donors.
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physician Karl Landsteiner publishes a paper detailing his discovery of the three main human blood groups -- A, B, and C, which he later changes to O.
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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."
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Dr. Ludvig Hektoen recommends other doctors to start checking the blood of donors. He recommended it so there wouldn't be signs of incompatibility before transfusion.
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Albert Hustin of Brussels and Luis Agote of Buenos Aires discover that adding sodium citrate to blood will prevent it from clotting
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Turner develop a citrate-glucose solution that allows blood to be stored for a few weeks after collection and still remain viable for transfusion.
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During WWI a doctor serving in the army stores blood in order to try to save soldiers. Without knowing it, he establishes the first blood depot.
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Percy Lane Oliver begins operating a blood donor service out of his home in London
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Thomas Cooley describes a Mediterranean hematologic syndrome of anemia, erythroblastosis, skeletal disorders, and splenomegaly he later calls it " Cooley’s anemia" and now thalassemia.
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Dr. Serge Yudin is the first to test the efficacy of transfusing humans with cadaver blood
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A group of anesthesiologists organize a transfusion service two years earlier, are the first to begin storing citrated blood and utilizing it for transfusions within a hospital setting in the U.S.
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physician Federico Duran-Jorda establishes the Barcelona Blood-Transfusion Service that collects blood, tests it, pools it by blood group, preserves and stores it in bottles under refrigeration, and transports it to front line hospitals during the Spanish Civil War.
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Drs. Philip Levine and R.E. Stetson uncover an unknown antibody in the blood of a woman who's gave birth to a stillborn, and that the factor in the blood of the fetus, inherited from the father, triggers the antibody production in the mother.
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Dr. R.E. Stetson and Dr. Philip Levine discovered an unknown antibody in the blood of a woman. The discovery of Rh blood group is presented
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Dr. Carl W. Walter, a trained surgeon, develops a plastic bag for the collection of blood
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Dr. Carl W. Walter devolps a plastic bag to store blood. Prior to this, blood was stored in glass containers but they weren't very efficient. This simply impacted blood storing in a positive way.
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The first antihemophilic factor concentrate to treat coagulation disorders in hemophilia patients is developed through fractiona- tion
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The first accounts of the sydrome aids were found. They were first found in gay men. This disease came to be one of the deadliest in mankind.
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The United States and France decide to share credit
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More blood infectious diseases are found. Tests are conducted that immediately detects the genetic material of viruses like HCV and HIV.