This week, we keep trying to figure out blood transfusions, in the pursuit of helping those with circulatory shock. Oswald Hope Robertson makes the first blood bank, Sergei Yudin starts the first cadaver blood bank, and Percy Lane Oliver founds the first blood donor service through the Red Cross. Finally, Landsteiner from last week returns, to describe the Rhesus factor.

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