Term: hematology or haematology
Literally meaning: “about blood”
Origin: Anc Greek
αίμα/hema(=blood)
-λογία/logia(=logy, suffix meaning “study of”, “speech”, “discourse”) > λέω/leo (=speak).
Coined/History
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Hippocrates (460 BC – ca. 370 BC) first reffered to humoral theory about bοdy liquids that are in balance (health) or in excess or deficiency (illness). In 1628 English phycisian William Harvey(1578 –1657) inroduced the concept of systemic circulation. In 1942 Dutch scientist Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek distinquished blood cells constructing a microscope. In 1818 English obstetrician James Blundell (1791–1878 performed the first succeful transfusion of human blood to aptient.
Definition
Hematology is the branch of medicine dealing with the study of blood, the blood-forming organs as bone marrow, and blood diseases.
Maybe not 1942 for Leeuwenhoek [LINK]:
ReplyDelete[QUOTE] (excerpted from: M. Bessis and G. Delpech., 1981, Discovery of the Red Blood Cell with notes on priorities and credits of discoveries. Blood Cells 7:447-480)
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is widely credited as the discoverer of red blood cells. In truth, he was not the first person to observe "red particles" in blood but his observations were more detailed and numerous than those (by Malpighi and Swammerdam) that preceded him .
1) Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)
Leeuwenhoek's first written description of human red blood cells (his own) was in a letter to Constantine Huygens (father of the physicist and astronomer Christiaan Huygens) on April 5, 1674 and later in another letter addressed to Mr. Oldenberg, Secretary of the Royal Society of London on April 5, 1674. The first publication of the observation of globules in blood occurred in April 1674 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society of London in which Leeuwenhoek published his 1673 observations reported in the letter to Huygens (see Figure). In a letter dated August 14, 1675, Leeuwenhoek went on to make the remarkable discovery that "those sanguineous globules in a healthy body must be very flexible and pliant, if they are to pass through the small capillary veins and arteries, and that in their passage they change into an oval figure, reassuming their roundness when they come into a larger room."[END QUOTE]