![]() ![]() ![]() And the story of one man who didn't make it, we'll get into the why of that later, is at the center of a new book about the early history of transfusion. They were giving animal blood to people even.Īmazingly, some of those people survived, and of course some of them didn't. So there are checks and double-checks to make sure that those A's and B's and O's, well, they all match up.īut centuries ago, long before anyone ever heard of blood types of immune systems, scientists in France and England were experimenting with blood transfusions. If you've ever gotten a blood transfusion, you know that it can be a lifesaving medical treatment, but it must be done very carefully because if you give somebody the wrong blood type, you can cause a deadly immune reaction. Up next, a tale of blood, I guess is how you might say it. ![]()
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