 J. Garrott Allen |
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He called public attention to potential risks of infection from commercial blood supplies.
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| Bertram Bernheim |
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He was one of the leading pioneers in the field of blood surgery and transfusion.
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| Charles Best |
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His co-discovery of insulin, in 1921, led
to its use as a treatment for diabetes.
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| Henry Norman Bethune |
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He set up a mobile blood-transfusion service, the first of its kind in history.
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| James Blundell |
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He was one of the first people to practice blood transfusion in humans.
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| Kenneth Brinkhous |
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He discovered that hemophiliacs could not make a blood-clotting factor that now is called Factor VIII.
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| Alexis Carrel |
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His experiments led to advances in the field of surgery and the art of tissue culture.
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| Edward Churchill |
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He performed the first successful operation in the United States to relieve constrictive pericarditis, a heart ailment.
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| Edwin Cohn |
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He developed new techniques for fractionating blood plasma, for preserving red cells for transfusion, and for studying other
constituents of blood.
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| George Washington Crile |
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He developed a "shockless" method of anesthesia by which he attempted to isolate the operative site from the nervous system.
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| Elliott Cutler |
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He introduced several new techniques into cardiac surgery, a field then in its infancy.
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Photos: Hippocrates and Reuben Ottenberg, courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
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