The branch of medicine that treats diseases by using blood or blood products, including transfusions and blood-derived medicines.
From Greek 'haima' (blood) + 'therapeutikos' (healing). Medical specialty that emerged in the 20th century as blood transfusion technology advanced.
During World War II, the massive need for blood transfusions revolutionized hemotherapeutics and led to the creation of blood banks—one of medicine's most important inventions that still saves millions of lives today.
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