History Of Blood Banking Flashcards
A Chinese guy who said that the “blood contained the soul”
Huang Di Nei Ching
Vital force
Essence of life
“Drinking blood as a tonic for rejuvenation and for the treatment of various diseases.
Blood
Blood baths for physical and spiritual restoration
Egyptians
Drank blood of fallen gladiators in the belief that the blood could transmit vitality
Romans
Where blood letting is depicted
Ancient greek vase
A greek physician who postulated that the body consisted of four humours namely; blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile.
Hippocrates (400 BC)
A greek philosopher who said that the central organ is the heart. And following dissections of many different animals, he said that is it a three chambered organ
Aristotle
Greek physician who said that there is dark and bright blood that flows in separate chamber which interconnect.
Mentioned that liver is the origin of blood and kidney as a filter.
Claudius Galenus (Galen)
Earliest recorded person who receive a transfusion from 3 young boys as a remedy for apoplectic stroke. (Unsuccessful blood transfusion)
Pope Innocent VIII
During this time, blood letting is the most popular for of treating various ailments.
18th century
Discovered blood circulation during 1616
William Harvey
Era of real blood transfusion
1616
Performed the first successful animal to animal blood transfusion (dog to dog)
Richard Lower (1665)
Performed the first successful animal to human blood transfusion.
Jean Baptiste Denis (1667)
Patient of Jean Baptiste Denis who received a blood from a calf. Also received three transfusion but died because of the poison from his wife
Antoine Mauroy
Invented the bleeding bowl with graduation to measure blood volume.
John Foster (1740)