In 1942, Lloyd Felton, utilizing pneumoccal polysaccharides, demonstrated a phenomenon known as “immunological paralysis” or immune tolerance. Felton…
In 1942, Chester Emmons from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases first pointed out reservoirs of…
In 1942, a classic manual describing and illustrating the stages of the malaria parasites was prepared by Aimee…
In 1942, “Louisiana pneumonitis,” a human disease possibly related to psittacosis, was discovered and studied in great detail…
In 1942, Willard H. Wright, Eloise Cram, Walter Newton and their colleagues in the NIH Division of Zoologye…
In 1942, Austrian physiatrist Karl Theodore Dussik published a paper on the medical application of ultrasonics in his…
In 1942, the Malaria Control in War Areas (MCWA) agency was established in Atlanta, Georgia, now known as…
In 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt publicly denounced germ warfare as an inhumane form of warfare. Privately, he approved…
In 1942, influenza A/B vaccine was introduced to the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board. The vaccine was effective against…
In 1942, the first intravenous chemotherapy treatment of a cancer patient was performed at Yale.
In 1942, Yale cancer research began when the first use of a cancer drug was administered to a…
In 1942, Dr. Jonas Salk arrived at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Techniques earned there…
In 1942, the U.S. government with the military secretly tasked a small group of Mayo Clinic physicians and…
In 1942, The Hormel Institute was founded by Jay C. Hormel in Austin to research and find a…
In 1942, tte Medical Research Foundation (MRF) was founded by a group of Potland area businessmen and physicians…
In 1942, The Medical College of Virginia organized a medical unit to serve during the war from 1942-45….
In 1942, the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College’s first Ph.D. was awarded to Nathan Sugarman in chemistry. In…
In 1942, Dr. William Hutchinson began a 47 year career in Seattle, Washington when he joined the Swedish…
On Dec. 16, 1941, the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR), San Antonio’s first biomedical research organization, was…
On Dec. 1, 1941, in response to the emergency need for insulin standards, the USP formed an Insulin…
On Oct. 11, 1941, the first wheels of Maytag Blue Cheese were formed when production of the cheese…
On Aug. 1, 1941, Harold L. Stewart and Egon Lorenz published an article in the Journal of the…
On Aug. 1, 1941, Floyd C. Turner published “Sarcomas at Sites of Subcutaneously Implanted Bakelite Disks in Rats”…
On Feb. 4, 1941, the Red Cross began a National Blood Donor Service to collect blood for the…
In January 1941, Ida A. Bengtson and Norman Topping published “Complement-Fixation in Rickettsial Diseases” in the American Journal…
On Jan. 1, 1941, Dr. Homer Stryker, an orthopaedic surgeon from Kalamazoo, Michigan, founded Stryker to provide medical…
In 1941, the Priestley Medal was awarded to Thomas Midgley by the American Chemical Society “to recognize distinguished…
In 1941, Charles Huggins discovers that blocking male hormones (by removal of the testicles or administration of estrogens)…
In 1941, the National Blood Donor Service was initiated by the Red Cross to collect blood for the…
In 1941, Dean Cowie and Leonard Scheele’s survey of procedures used in handling and storing radium loaned to…