title: Fifty years of an organized blood transfusion service in Scotland.
abstract: The activities of an enthusiastic Edinburgh dentist in recruiting donors in the early 1930s led up to the establishment of a Scottish National Blood Transfusion Association in 1940. From this has developed the present Service with five Regional Centres and a major manufacturing Protein Fractionation Centre.
authors.affiliation: Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, Headquarters Unit, Edinburgh.
authors.forename: R H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Girdwood
mesh_terms: D001771:Blood Banks / Q000266:history*; D001798:Blood Proteins; D001803:Blood Transfusion / Q000266:history*; D005591:Chemical Fractionation; D005612:Freeze Drying; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D012606:Scotland
chemical_list: D001798:Blood Proteins