Vol. 6, Issue 2, Part A (2024)

In 1667 a physician called JEAN-BAPTIST DENIS performed a blood transfusion from sheep to a patient who is suffering from fever. Before that in 1665 he transfused blood between two dogs. PAUL EMMEREZ a surgeon helped Denis to transfuse blood from animal to human. A 12 years old boy suffering from fever there is an emergency need of blood and he started to transfuse animal blood to human to that little kid. He succeeded in that but there are more side effects because of using this animal blood like back pain, black urine and some chronic side effects. In 1818 JASMES DLUNDELL performed human to human blood transfusion succeeded in some patients and failed in many. But later in 1901 KARL LANDSTAINER discovered the different types of blood groups so DLUNDELL failed in many cases during transfusion of blood from human to human. From then transfusion of blood became far easier than in early 16 hundreds. But anyway there is no artificial blood has been discovered yet. Many scientists have concluded that artificial blood cannot be discovered. Even there is an animal which is compatible for human it shows many side effect. Except the lug worm every creature will have antigen. So, scientists began to research on it and still failing. There are several reasons like organ incompatibility.