Blood Transfusion History
1665 The first recorded successful blood transfusion occurs in England: Physician Richard Lower keeps dogs alive by transfusion of blood from other dogs.
1818 James Blundell performs the first successful blood transfusion of human blood to treat postpartum hemorrhage.
1840 The first whole blood transfusion to treat hemophilia is successfully completed.
1900 Karl Landsteiner discovers the first three human blood groups, A, B and O.
1902 Landsteiner’s colleagues, Alfred Decastello and Adriano Sturli, add a fourth blood type, AB.
1907 Blood typing and cross matching between donors and patients is attempted to improve the safety of transfusions. The universality of the O blood group is identified.
1914 Adolf Hustin discovers that sodium citrate can anticoagulate blood for transfusion, allowing it to be stored and later transfused safely to patients on the battlefield.
1932 The first blood bank is established at Leningrad hospital.
1939-1940 The Rh blood group is discovered and recognized as the cause behind most transfusion reactions.
1940 The US government establishes a nationwide blood collection program.
So from the beginning of the Watchtower being printed in 1879, they were ok with blood transfusions until 1945. What caused this? Do you think there wasn't enough sickness and death from the discouragement of vaccines and they neded more martyrs to feed their sense of self-righteousness?