The history of the origin of the blood service

Abstract

The development of blood donation for tens and even hundreds of years was accompanied by wonderful stories of salvation and tragic stories of the death of patients, as well as incredible ups and downs — from the deification of this method to the state and church ban on its use. There are three main stages in the history of the formation of transfusiology as a science: the era before the discovery of the circulatory system, the period when blood transfusion had no scientific justification due to ignorance of the existence of the four main blood groups, and, finally, the modern stage, which began with the discovery of blood group systems by Karl Landsteiner, and later the Rh factor. Despite the fact that more than 100 years have passed since this great discovery, a worthy alternative to human-to-human donor blood transfusion has not yet been found.