The East Florida Seminary (University of Florida) was founded
On Jan. 6, 1853, Florida Governor Thomas Brown signed a bill that provided public support to higher education,…
On Jan. 6, 1853, Florida Governor Thomas Brown signed a bill that provided public support to higher education,…
In 1852, Adolphe Chatin, a French chemist, was the first to publish the hypothesis of population iodine deficiency…
On Jan. 24, 1851, the West Florida Seminary (Florida State University) was founded by the Florida General Assembly…
On Sept. 20, 1848, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) was founded which marked the…
In 1840, German scientist Dr. Jacob von Heine conducted the first systematic investigation of polio and developed the…
On Oct. 2, 1836, British naturalist Charles Darwin returned to England from the voyage of the “Beagle.” Darwin,…
On Dec. 27, 1831, naturalist Charles Darwin departed England on the British science expedition voyage of the “Beagle”…
On Dec. 20, 1823, the South Carolina General Assembly granted the request of the Medical Society of South…
In 1817, James Parkinson published an essay on six cases of paralysis agitans known as Shaking Palsy. This paper…
On May 3, 1802, the first permanent Marine hospital was authorized to be built in Boston, Mass. A…
On Dec. 11, 1789, the University of North Carolina (UNC) was founded. The UNC was the first public…
On Feb. 13, 1786, first meeting of the University of Georgia board of trustees was held and Abraham…
On Sept. 19, 1782, the Harvard Medical School was founded by Dr. John Warren a graduate of Harvard…
On Nov. 1, 1781, the Massachusetts Medical Society was established, and its charter was signed by Samuel Adams,…
On Sept. 17, 1683, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, known as “the Father of Microbiology” wrote to the Royal Society…
In 1665, Robert Hooke published Micrographia that described cells – viewed in sections of cork – for the…
In 1322, an Arab chieftain first used artificial insemination to produce superior horses.
In 1179, the Third Lateran Council decreed with Canon 23 living arrangements for lepers and how their necessary…
In 470, Atossa, daughter of Cyrius the Great became the first women in recorded history to be diagnosed…
The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, dated to 3,000-2,500 B.C., and possibly attributable to Imhotep, the Egyptian physician-architect, provided…