This website has been created to let the general public find out about some of the historical aspects of the blood transfusion, and how in the past hundred years, this branch of medicine came about. There are sections of the website which are still being added and created, as more video and photographic material comes to light along with interviews and other historical documents and media is digitised and added to the site.
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"Liverpool University - specifically, its department of medicine is the origin of one of the last century’s grandest medical research advances. Unfortunately, very few Liverpudlians or other Britons know very much (if anything) about it; this breakthrough was not widely heralded at the time or celebrated thereafter in the British prints.
Thankfully, with the assistance of the University of Liverpool, Professor Ian Franklin, Professor of Transfusion Medicine at the University of Glasgow, has now rectified the Fourth Estate’s negligence. Through the Museum of Transfusion Medicine web site (http://bloodtransfusion.org/), the full text of my non fiction account : Rh: The Intimate History of a Disease and Its Conquest is presented. It was published in the United States by the Macmillan Company (now part of Simon and Schuster) a third of a century ago, in 1973.
I am of course grateful for the honor, and I am pleased that English and English-speaking readers everywhere now can relive, as I did, these dramatic and life-saving events. To date, millions of human deaths and much suffering have been averted by the brilliant work of internist Ronald ("Ronnie") Finn, M.D., who regrettably is recently deceased; his departmental chief Sir Cyril Clarke, M.D., who died in 2000; and their colleagues, geneticist Philip Sheppard, D.Phil., who died in 1976, and two physicians, John Woodrow, M.D., and the late Richard McConnell, M.D."
David R Zimmerman
Sheffield, Vermont, U.S.A.
February, 2006
From the Preface to the on-line edition of Rh
By David R. Zimmerman
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The Virtual Museum has been through serveral makeovers in the past year to arrive with, what we hope, is an exciting and user friendly web site. The site features several different types of technology to create this user environment.
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We wish to thank all the people who have worked together to create this site, but special thanks to the Directors of Blood Transfusion Services around the UK for their continual support!.
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