1628 COLLE, Giovanni (1558 – 1631)
Methodus facile parandi iucunda tuta et nova medicamenta & eius applicatio aduersus chimicos.
Page 170 includes the first definite description of a blood transfusion, notably published in the same year as Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood in De motu cordis. Digital facsimile from Google Books …
GMN 2011 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1961
1665 –1666 LOWER, Richard (1631 – 1691)
The method observed in transfusing the blood out of one live animal into another.
In February 1665 Lower successfully transfused dogs with blood.
GMN 2012 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1966
1665 ELSHOLTZ, Johann Sigmund (1623 – 1688)
Clysmatica nova; oder newe Clystier-Kunst.
Elsholtz’s book on the venous infusion of medicaments was one of the first works to deal with blood transfusion. Latin edition in 1667; English translation in 1677. Reprint of Latin 1667 edition, Hildesheim, G. Olms, …
GMN 1962 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3738
1667 DENIS, Jean Baptiste [DENYS] (1625 – 1704)
Lettre … touchant deux expériences de la transfusion faites sur des hommes.
The first transfusion of blood into a human was performed by Denis on June 15, 1667; he transfused lamb’s blood into a youth. For a partial translation, see Geoffrey Keynes’s Blood transfusion (Bristol, 1949) 14-15. D…
GMN 2013 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1971
1667 LOWER, Richard (1631 – 1691); KING, Sir Edmund (1630 – 1709)
An account of the experiment of transfusion, practised upon a man in London.
First transfusion of blood performed on a human in England, Nov. 23, 1667.
GMN 2014 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1979
1679 MERCKLIN, Georg Abraham (1644 – 1702)
Tractatio med. curiosa, de ortu & occasasu transfusionis sanguins, qua haec, quae fit e bruto in brutum, a for medico penitus eliminatur; ila, quae e bruto in hominem peragitur....
The first detailed history of efforts at blood transfusion. Mercklin was one of the earliest writers to discuss the history, value, dangers, and methods of blood transfusion. He recognized and understood what we now c…
GMN 10604 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12797
1802 –1803 SCHEEL, Paul (1773 – 1811); DIEFFENBACH, Johann Friedrich (1792 – 1847)
Die Transfusion des Blutes und Einspriitzung der Arzneyen in die Adem. Historisch und in Rücksicht auf die practische Heilkunde bearbeitet. 2 vols.
Schell was the author of the first 2 vols, which were the first major work on transfusion since the 17th century and an excellent early history of the subject. Scheel reviewed both transfusion and intravenous injectio…
GMN 2028.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2065
1817 LEACOCK, John Henry ( – 1828)
On transfusion of blood in extreme cases of haemorrhage.
In 1816 Leacock, from Barbados, reported systematic experiments in Edinburgh on dogs and cats that established that donor and recipient must be of the same species, and recommended inter-human transfusion; he then ret…
GMN 9701 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11888
1817 GRÄFE, Karl Ferdinand von [Graefe] (1787 – 1840); GRAEFE, Eduard Adolph von (1794 – 1859)
De nova infusionis methodo. Dissertatio inauguralis medico-chirurgica....
Eduard von Graefe’s medical thesis described the method devised by his brother, Carl Ferdinand von Graefe (1787-1840), for transfusing blood or other liquids into the blood vessels. The work includes an illustration o…
GMN 9871 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12059
1818 BLUNDELL, James (1790 – 1877)
Experiments on the transfusion of blood by the syringe.
Blundell invented a syringe by means of which he was able to transfuse dogs.
GMN 2015 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1984
1819 BLUNDELL, James (1790 – 1877)
Some account of a case of obstinate vomiting, in which an attempt was made to prolong life, by the injection of blood into the veins.
Records the first human to human transfusion. A man received 12 to 14 oz. of blood from several donors by means of Blundell’s funnel and syringe. He died 56 hours after the transfusion.
GMN 2015.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1986
1821 PRÉVOST, Jean-Louis (1790 – 1850); DUMAS, Jean-Baptiste André (1800 – 1884)
Examen du sang et de son action dans les divers phénomènes de la vie.
First successful use of defibrinated blood for animal transfusions. This was the first attempt to prevent coagulation during transfusion.
GMN 2016 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1990
1828 –1829 BLUNDELL, James (1790 – 1877)
Observations on transfusion of blood.
The first human to human transfusion in which the patient did not die. Blundell established the most fundamental points in transfusion, including the incompatibility of interspecies transfusion and the method of indir…
GMN 2017 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1992
1840 –1841 LANE, Samuel Armstrong (1802 – 1892)
Successful transfusion of blood.
Blood transfusion used in treatment of hemophilia.
GMN 3058.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3700
1862 PELLIZZARI, Pietro (1823 – 1892)
Della trasmissione delle sifilide mediante la inoculazione del sangue.
Proof of the possibility of transmission of syphilis by blood transfusion.
GMN 2388 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3308
1867 ULLERSPERGER, Jean Baptiste
Prize essay. Ancient transfusion and infusion compared with modern transfusion, infusion, and hypodermic or subcutaneous injections. Translated by Charles F. Wittig.
A comprehensive review, for the time, of the historical literature on these subjects. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 9869 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12057
1869 HICKS, John Braxton (1823 – 1897)
Cases of transfusion, with some remarks on a new method of performing the operation.
Sodium phosphate used as anticoagulant in blood transfusion.
GMN 2017.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1995
1873 AVELING, James Hobson (1828 – 1892)
Immediate transfusion in England: seven cases, and the author’s method of operating.
Portable transfusion apparatus.
GMN 2017.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2001
1874 LANDOIS, Leonard (1837 – 1902)
Auflösung der rothen Blutzellen.
Landois discovered the hemolyzing effect of blood serum of one species when transfused into another.
GMN 2018 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2004
1876 ORÉ, Pierre Cyprien (1828 – 1889)
Études historiques, physiologiques et cliniques sur la transfusion du sang.
An excellent and well-documented treatise on blood transfusion, including a comprehensive history of the subject from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its revival in the nineteenth after a long period of d…
GMN 7215 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9382
1909 CRILE, George Washington (1864 – 1943)
Hemorrhage and transfusion.
GMN 5628 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7211
1913 KIMPTON, Arthur Ronald (1881 – 1962); BROWN, James Howard (1884 – 1956)
A new and simple method of transfusion.
In order to prevent blood coagulation during transfusion, Kimpton and Brown used apparatus lined with paraffin wax. See also Boston med. surg. J., 1915, 173, 425-7.
GMN 2018.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2006
1914 HUSTIN, Albert (1882 – 1967)
Note sur une nouvelle méthode de transfusion.
Hustin demonstrated the anticoagulant powers of sodium citrate and glucose in blood transfusion.
GMN 2019 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2008
1914 AGOTE, Luis (1868 – 1954)
Nuevo procedimiento para la transfusion de la sangre.
Agote was the first to transfuse citrated blood. Text in Spanish and French.
GMN 2020 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2014
1915 LEWISOHN, Richard (1875 – 1962)
A new and greatly simplified method of blood transfusion. A preliminary report.
About the same time as Agote, Lewisohn introduced the citrate method of blood transfusion. See also his later paper in Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 1915, 21, 37-47.
GMN 2021 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2017
1917 –1918 ROBERTSON, Oswald Hope (1886 – 1966)
Transfusion with preserved red blood cells.
Robertson stored blood and used it with good results to treat casualties on the battlefield.
GMN 2021.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2023
1918 SCHMIDT, Harry Burke (1882 – )
A clinical study of puerperal anaemia.
Four cases of pernicious anemia of pregnancy treated by blood transfusion.
GMN 3135 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3941
1925 RIEHL, Gustav (1855 – 1943)
Zur Therapie schwerer Verbrennungen.
Riehl was an early advocate of blood transfusion in the treatment of shock after burns.
GMN 2254 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2787
1925 HART, Alfred Purvis (1887 – 1954)
Familial icterus gravis of the new-born and its treatment.
Successful exchange transfusion.
GMN 3087.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3757
1933 SIMILI, Alessandro (1901 – 1977)
Origine e vicende della trasfusione del sangue. Considerazioni storico-critche.
GMN 2028.41 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2069
1935 FLOSDORF, Earl William (1904 – 1958); MUDD, Stuart (1893 – 1975)
Procedure and apparatus for preservation in “lyophile” form of serum and other biological substances.
GMN 2022 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2025
1935 MARRIOTT, Hugh Leslie (1900 – 1983); KEKWICK, Alan (1909 – 1974)
Continuous drip blood transfusion.
Introduction of the slow-drip method of blood transfusion.
GMN 2023 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2029
1936 HEDENIUS, Per Johannes (1906 – 1981)
A new method of blood transfusion.
Heparin used in blood transfusion. See also the same journal, 88, 443-49.
GMN 2024 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2036
1936 YUDIN, Sergei Sergeievich (1891 – 1954)
Transfusion of cadaver blood.
Cadaver blood used in human transfusions. Prof. Shamov of Kharkov carried out the first experimental work on transfusion of cadaver blood in 1927.
GMN 2025 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2040
1937 FANTUS, Bernard (1874 – 1940)
The therapy of the Cook County Hospital. Blood preservation.
Described the establishment of the first blood bank (at the Cook County Hospital).
GMN 2026 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2045
1938 GOODALL, James Robert (1878 – 1947); ET AL
An inexhaustible source of blood for transfusion, and its preservation. Preliminary report.
J. R. Goodall, F. O. Anderson, G. T. Altimas, and F. L. MacPhail pointed out the possibility of using placental blood for transfusion purposes.
GMN 2027 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2050
1941 DREW, Charles Richard (1904 – 1950); ET AL
Report of the Blood Transfusion Association concerning the Project for Supplying Blood Plasma to England, which has been carried on jointly with the American Red Cross from August, 1940, to January, 1941. Narrative account of work and medical report.
Drew discovered the method for long-term storage of blood plasma, and organized America's first large-scale blood bank. Drew's thesis for his medical degree at Columbia was entitled "Banked Blood: A Study in Blood Pre…
GMN 12823 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15069
1943 LOUTIT, John Freeman (1910 – 1992); MOLLISON, Patrick Loudon (1914 – 2012)
Advantages of a disodium-citrate-glucose mixture as a blood preservative.
This work made possible the storage of whole blood for up to three weeks.
GMN 2027.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2053
1944 GRÖNWALL, Anders Johan Troed (1912 – 1989); INGLEMAN, Björn
Untersuchungen über Dextran und sein Verhalten bei parenteraler Zufuhr.
Introduction of dextran as plasma substitute.
GMN 2028 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2057
1945 COOMBS, Robert Royston Amos ( (1921 – 2006); ET AL
Detection of weak and “incomplete” Rh agglutinins: a new test.
Coombs’s test for detecting antibodies in various clinical scenarios, such as Rh disease and blood transfusion. With A. E. Mourant and R. R. Race. A fuller description appears in Brit. J. exp. Path.,1945, 26, 255-66.
GMN 3104 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3805
1948 DIAMOND, Louis Klein (1902 – 1999)
Replacement transfusion as a treatment for erythroblastosis fetalis.
Exchange transfusion.
GMN 3107.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3816
1950 SMITH, Audrey Ursula (1915 – 1981)
Prevention of haemolysis during freezing and thawing red blood-cells.
Demonstration that human blood diluted with equal volumes of 30% glycerol in Ringer’s lactate solution could be frozen at -79° C and thawed after eight weeks without damage.
GMN 2028.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2061
1954 MALUF, Nobel Suydam Rustum (1913 – )
History of blood transfusion.
GMN 2028.42 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2071
1963 LILEY, Albert William (1929 – 1983)
Intrauterine transfusion of foetus in haemolytic disease.
GMN 3108.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3833
1974 PEUMERY, Jean-Jacques
Les origines de la transfusion sanguine.
Reprinted from Clio Medica, Vol. 9, 1974.
GMN 2028.43 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2073
1992 GOTTLIEB, A. Matthew
A pictorial history of blood practices and transfusion.
GMN 13062 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15314
2008 LEDERER, Susan E. (1955 – )
Flesh and blood: Organ transplantation and blood transfusion in twentieth-century America.
GMN 10362 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12554
2013 SCHNEIDER, William H.
The history of blood transfusion in Sub-Saharan Africa.
GMN 7843 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10015
2014 SWANSON, Kara W.
Banking on the body: The market in blood, milk, and sperm in modern America.
GMN 11513 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13712
2014 STEPHANOU, Aspasia
Reading vampire gothic through blood: Bloodlines.
GMN 11745 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13945
