History of Medicine By gabbyyoung Period: Jan 4, 1800 to Dec 31, 2012 Dates May 3, 1816 René Laënnec invents stethoscope René Laënnec invents stethoscope Sep 4, 1818 James Blundell performs first human blood transfursion Nov 4, 1882 First vaccine for rabies First vaccine for rabies Sep 7, 1895 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X rays. Nov 11, 1899 Felix Hoffman develops aspirin Feb 3, 1922 Insulin first used to treat diabetes Apr 11, 1926 First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough) Jul 16, 1935 First vaccine for yellow fever. Aug 6, 1937 Bernard Fantus starts the first blood bank in Cook County Nov 15, 1945 First vaccine for influenza. Dec 27, 1953 Watson and Crick describe DNA Nov 28, 1957 First artificial heart in a dog. The animal survives 90 minutes. Oct 3, 1964 First vaccine for measles. Nov 23, 1967 Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant. Jun 7, 1974 First vaccine for chicken pox. May 26, 1977 First vaccine for pneumonia. Sep 4, 1980 (World Health Organization) announces smallpox is eradicated. Oct 28, 1992 First vaccine for hepatitis A. Sep 4, 1996 Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell. Dec 4, 1998 First vaccine for lyme disease. Aug 13, 2007 use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.