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Summary Edexcel GCSE 9-1 History: Medicine on the Western Front TIMELINE
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Medicine on the Western Front• 1818
- James Blundell did the first experiment into human blood
transfusion
• 1829
- Blundell carried out 10 transfusions by now and up to half of
the patients survived
• 1894
- Prof Almroth Wright concluded that the soluble solution of
certain acids could prevent clotting but side effects could not
be prevented
• 1895
- Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays
• 1896
- Radiology departments started to open in British hospitals
• 1898
- Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) formally founded
• 1901
- Karl Landsteiner discovered 3 different blood groups, A, B
and O
• 1902
- AB blood group discovered
• 1907
- Reuben Ottenberg was the first person to match a donor and
recipients blood group before a transfusion
- First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) founded
• 1913
- William Coolidge advances technology in the making of glass
tubes for x-ray machines
• 1914
- 4th August - Britain declared war on Germany
- October - After a fundraising campaign by the Times
newspaper raised enough money to send 512 ambulance
wagons to the soldiers
- 12th October - First Battle of Ypres until 11th November
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