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The first blood transfusion from animal to human was administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys, eminent physician to King Louis XIV of France, on June 15, 1667. [82] He transfused the blood of a sheep into a 15-year-old boy, who survived the transfusion. [83] Denys performed another transfusion into a labourer, who also survived.
First successful human blood transfusion, June 15, 1667 Denys administered the first full documented xenotransfusion on June 15, 1667. With the assistance of Paul Emmerez he transfused about twelve ounces of lamb blood into the veins of a 15-year-old boy who had suffered from uncontrollable fevers for two months and had been consequently bled ...
The first recorded blood transfusion was performed between two dogs in 1665. [4] On June 15, 1667, Jean-Baptiste Denis, a French physician, and Paul Emmerez, a surgeon, performed the first documented xenotransfusion to humans. The transfusion occurred between a lamb and a 15-year-old boy.
Blundell performed the first successful human-to-human transfusion in 1818. [3] In 1829, he reported this transfusion in an article in the medical journal Lancet. [4] Dr. Blundell extracted four ounces of blood from the arm of the patient's husband using a syringe, and successfully transfused it into the patient.
Charles Richard Drew (June 3, 1904 – April 1, 1950) was an American surgeon and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge to developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II.
The idea of blood transfusion had originated in Paris. A French monk, Dom Robert des Gabets described the principle of transfusion at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in July 1658. Lower showed it was possible for blood to be transfused from animal to animal, and performed the first transfusion between two dogs in February 1665.
Landsteiner also found out that blood transfusion between persons with the same blood group did not lead to the destruction of blood cells, whereas this occurred between persons of different blood groups. [10] Based on his findings, the first successful blood transfusion was performed by Reuben Ottenberg at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York in 1907.
In 1840 while practicing in London England, Samuel Armstrong Lane, aided by consultant Dr. Blundell, performed the first successful whole Blood transfusion in an attempt to treat hemophilia. In 1843 he was elected one of the original 300 Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons