History of Medicine

By gabbyyoung
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  • René Laënnec invents stethoscope

    René Laënnec invents stethoscope

  • James Blundell performs first human blood transfursion

  • First vaccine for rabies

    First vaccine for rabies

  • Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X rays.

  • Felix Hoffman develops aspirin

  • Insulin first used to treat diabetes

  • First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough)

  • First vaccine for yellow fever.

  • Bernard Fantus starts the first blood bank in Cook County

  • First vaccine for influenza.

  • Watson and Crick describe DNA

  • First artificial heart in a dog. The animal survives 90 minutes.

  • First vaccine for measles.

  • Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant.

  • First vaccine for chicken pox.

  • First vaccine for pneumonia.

  • (World Health Organization) announces smallpox is eradicated.

  • First vaccine for hepatitis A.

  • Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.

  • First vaccine for lyme disease.

  • use human skin cells to create embryonic stem cells.