Typhoid Fever Epidemic struck Mankato, Minnesota
On Jun. 26, 1908, a typhoid fever epidemic struck Mankato, Minnesota with 5,000-6,000 cases of diarrhea reported between…
On Jun. 26, 1908, a typhoid fever epidemic struck Mankato, Minnesota with 5,000-6,000 cases of diarrhea reported between…
On Apr. 24, 1908, Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler coined the term ‘schizophrenia’ at a lecture at a meeting…
In 1908, the University of British Columbia (UBC) was founded by The University Act. In 1910 a site…
In 1858, Samuel Elias Cooper founded the Far West’s first medical school in San Francisco. In 1908, Stanford…
In 1908, the University of Alberta in Edmonton opened it doors. The University was founded in 1906 with…
In 1908, Mount Sinai’s Reuben Ottenberg first published mention of using blood test for compatibility before human blood…
In 1908, Drs. John F. Anderson, Leslie L. Lumsen and Wade H. Frost expanded scope of earlier typhoid…
In 1908, Milton J. Rosenau and John F. Anderson established the standard unit for tetanus antitoxin. A pioneer…
In 1908, Arthur Marston Stimson developed a better method for rabies vaccine preparation so it could be sent…
In 1908, Dr. Karl Landsteiner at the University Department of Pathological Anatomy in Vienna discovered that the cause…
In 1908, Prevent Blindness America, the nation’s leading volunteer eye health and safety organization dedicated to fighting blindness…
In 1908, the first county health departments in the U.S. were formed. Local health departments vary in jurisdiction…
In 1908, Stanford Trustees accepted Cooper Medical College as part of the University, and in 1953 the Trustees…
In 1908, McGill professor Ernest Rutherford won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for his investigations into the disintegration…
In 1908, Charles Nicolle and Louis Manceaux at the Pasteur Institute were the first to describe Toxoplasma gondii…