In 1896, Shodair Children’s Hospital was founded. In 1987, Shodair Children’s Hospital became a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital…
In 1894, Thomas Caspar Gilchrist from the University of Maryland first identified blastomycosis. Gilchrist initially believed the disease…
In 1892, the port of New York imposed a 20 day quarantine on all immigrant passengers who traveled…
On Nov. 14, 1888, the Pasteur Institute was established as a rabies treatment center as well as an…
In 1888, Johnson ï¾ & ï¾ Johnson published “Modern Methods of Antiseptic Wound Treatment.” The book quickly became one the…
On Feb. 5, 1886, Dr. Arthur Wright who produced the first X-ray at Yale the previous year, published…
Between 1884-1895, Milton J. Rosenau, Leslie L. Lumsen, Joseph H. Kastle and other Hygienic Laboratory workers conducted an…
On Apr. 3, 1882, Eastern Washington University (EWU) was founded. Originally named Benjamin P. Cheney Academy for the…
In 1882, William Halsted performed the surgery that bears his name, and the modern era in the surgical…
In 1872, the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital was founded as the first hospital in America devoted…
On Jan. 27, 1864, William Worrall Mayo opened a medical practice in Rochester, Minnesota. He had been directed…
In 1852, Adolphe Chatin, a French chemist, was the first to publish the hypothesis of population iodine deficiency…
On Dec. 20, 1823, the South Carolina General Assembly granted the request of the Medical Society of South…
In 1823, The Medical College, a private institution of the Medical Society of South Carolina was incorporated in…
On Jul. 31, 1790, Samuel Hopkins was issued the first patent under the new U.S. patent statute signed…
On Dec. 11, 1789, the University of North Carolina (UNC) was founded. The UNC was the first public…
In 1727, Stephen Hales first measured the blood pressure in a horse. Hale continued his studies on cardiac…
On Sept. 17, 1683, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, known as “the Father of Microbiology” wrote to the Royal Society…
In 470, Atossa, daughter of Cyrius the Great became the first women in recorded history to be diagnosed…
Early Chinese medical writings in approximately 3600 B.C. were the first to record the decreases in goiter size…