History of Health Care

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  • Jan 1, 1489

    Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses

    Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses

  • Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope

    Zacharius Jannssen invents the microscope

  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

  • Sir Christopher Wren-experimenting on dogs

  • Anton van Leewenhoek discovers blood cells

    Anton van Leewenhoek discovers blood cells

  • Edward Jenner developed vaccine for smallpox

    Edward Jenner developed vaccine for smallpox

  • James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood

  • Dr. Horace WElls uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic

  • Louis Pasteur identifies germs as cause of diseases

    Louis Pasteur identifies germs as cause of diseases

  • Gregory Mendel established patterns of heredity

  • First vaccine for rabies

  • First contact lenses developed

  • Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovers X rays

  • Frist vaccine for typhoid fever

  • First vaccine for plague

  • 16000 patents are filed

  • 1st Nobel Prize is awarded

  • First Tour de France took place

  • San Francisco earthquake and fire

  • Ford introduces Model T

    Ford introduces Model T

  • President

    William Howard Taft was president

  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie
    Isolated radium

  • USA enters WWI

  • First vaccine developed for yellow fever

  • Charlie Chaplin directs Modern Times

  • first vaccine for influenza

  • William Boyle invents credit card

  • 1st McDonald's opens near Chicago

  • First test tube baby is born

  • First vaccine developed for meningitis

  • Smallpox is eradicated

  • First vaccine developed for hepatitis B

  • HIV is identified

  • Willem J. Kolff invented the artificial kidney dialysis machine

  • Dolly the sheep becomes the first clone

  • First vaccine to target a cause of cancer