History of Health Care By yeeeeaaaahhh Jan 1, 1489 Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses Jan 1, 1590 Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope Jan 1, 1628 William Harvey Jan 1, 1656 Sir Christopher Wren-experimenting on dogs Jan 1, 1690 Anton van Leewenhoek discovers blood cells Jan 1, 1796 Edward Jenner developed vaccine for smallpox Jan 1, 1818 James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood Jan 1, 1844 Dr. Horace WElls uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic Jan 1, 1857 Louis Pasteur identifies germs as cause of diseases Jan 1, 1865 Gregory Mendel established patterns of heredity Jan 1, 1882 First vaccine for rabies Jan 1, 1887 First contact lenses developed Jan 1, 1895 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X rays Jan 1, 1896 Frist vaccine for typhoid fever Jan 1, 1897 First vaccine for plague Jan 1, 1901 16000 patents are filed Jan 1, 1901 1st Nobel Prize is awarded Jan 1, 1903 First Tour de France took place Jan 1, 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire Jan 1, 1908 Ford introduces Model T Jan 1, 1910 President William Howard Taft was president Jan 1, 1910 Marie Curie Isolated radium Jan 1, 1917 USA enters WWI Jan 1, 1935 First vaccine developed for yellow fever Jan 1, 1936 Charlie Chaplin directs Modern Times Jan 1, 1945 first vaccine for influenza Jan 1, 1951 William Boyle invents credit card Jan 1, 1955 1st McDonald's opens near Chicago Jan 1, 1978 First test tube baby is born Jan 1, 1978 First vaccine developed for meningitis Jan 1, 1980 Smallpox is eradicated Jan 1, 1981 First vaccine developed for hepatitis B Jan 1, 1983 HIV is identified Jan 1, 1985 Willem J. Kolff invented the artificial kidney dialysis machine Jan 1, 1996 Dolly the sheep becomes the first clone Jan 1, 2006 First vaccine to target a cause of cancer
