Drs., McCoy, Chapin, Wherry, and Lamb elucidated a new disease, tularemia
In 1911, Drs. George W. McCoy, Charles W. Chapin, William B. Wherry, and B. H. Lamb elucidated a…
In 1911, Drs. George W. McCoy, Charles W. Chapin, William B. Wherry, and B. H. Lamb elucidated a…
In 1911, Lue Gim Gong, aka the ‘Citrus Wizard of Florida’, successfully produced a new orange hybrid, known…
In 1911, the Billings Clinic evolved from the general practice of Dr. Arthur J. Movius who founded his…
In 1911, the Institute for Cancer Research, now know as the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, was founded….
In 1911, William Krauss, Ph.G., M.D. of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine published the first paper…
On Jul. 15, 1910, the term Alzheimer’s disease was first used by German psychiatrist Dr. Emil Kraepelin to…
In 1910, James Wood Johnson takes over the leadership of Johnsonᅠ &ᅠ Johnson, a position he held until…
In 1910, Siemens, now Sivantos,ᅠ beganᅠ the ᅠfirst ᅠserialᅠ production ᅠof ᅠhearingᅠ instruments. The history of electrical hearing…
In 1910, hucksters make a few bucks purveying inhalers touted to protect people from the poisonous cyanogen vapors…
In 1910, John F. Anderson and Wade H. Frost extended earlier studies on hypersensitivity and used for the…
In 1910, William H. Schultz described the contraction of the isolated strip of sensitized guinea pig ileum when…
In 1910, Joseph H. Kastle published “The oxidases and other oxygen – catalysts concerned in biological oxidations.”
In 1910, the first agricultural engineering degree in the world was granted at Iowa State University. J. Brownlee…
In 1910, The Cook County Hospital treated 34.000 patients, but overcrowding became a problem and the facility needed…
In 1910, the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine’s first building, Connaway Hall, was built to house…
On Aug. 31, 1909, George W. McCoy published a preliminary report in “The Journal of Medical Research” that…
On May 1, 1909, Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, DC admitted its first patient. The Commander of…
On Apr. 1, 1909, Arkansas State University was founded by Act 100 of the 37th Arkansas General Assembly….
In 1897, Lonza Electricity Works was established on the banks of river Lonza in Switzerland. The electricity was…
In 1909, replacing Mendel’s term factors, geneticist Wilhelm Johannsen coined the terms gene to describe the carrier of…
In 1909, Drs. John F. Anderson and Joseph Goldberger confirmed Charles Nicolle’s finding that the body louse was…
In 1909, the Legislature purchased the present University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) campus site for $20,000, and…
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, 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. The Stanford School of Medicine…
In 1908, McGill professor Ernest Rutherford won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for his investigations into the disintegration…