BLOOD TRANSFUSION BEFORE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY ERA - HISTORICAL LANDMARKS
Abstract:
The attention to medical transfusion has been a preoccupation of mankind since ancient times. But the shift from ideology to practice was slow, the beginnings being hampered by a lack of understanding of the way the circulatory system works. With the elucidation of circulatory system functioning mode and also of blood types, blood transfusion has become a reality and even more a necessity in current medical practice.
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