Kantha S S
Japan Institute for Control of Aging, Shizuoka, Japan.
Ceylon Med J. 1995 Sep;40(3):123-5.
A 1900 publication authored by Karl Landsteiner, at the age of 32 years, contained a footnote which stated that, "the serum of healthy human beings not only agglutinates animal red cells, but also often those of human origin, from other individuals". He followed up this statement in his 1901 paper, and concluded that, "My observations reveal characteristic differences between blood serum and red blood cells of various apparently healthy persons" and that "the reported observations may assist in the explanation of various consequences of therapeutical blood transfusions". These significant observations resulted in the discovery of A, B, O and AB blood groups and later led to successful blood transfusions in humans. The impact of the revolutionary finding by Landsteiner also changed a number of biomedical disciplines such as immunochemistry, medical anthropology, forensic medicine, genetics and pathology.
卡尔·兰德施泰纳在32岁时于1900年发表的一篇论文中有一条脚注称：“健康人的血清不仅会凝集动物红细胞，而且常常也会凝集来自其他个体的人类红细胞。”他在1901年的论文中对这一说法进行了跟进，并得出结论：“我的观察揭示了不同表面健康的人的血清和红细胞之间的特征差异”，以及“所报告的观察结果可能有助于解释治疗性输血的各种后果”。这些重要观察结果促成了A、B、O和AB血型的发现，后来又带来了人类输血的成功。兰德施泰纳这一革命性发现的影响还改变了免疫化学、医学人类学、法医学、遗传学和病理学等多个生物医学学科。
