Colorado Dentist Frederick McKay began research into fluoride
In 1901, Frederick McKay, a young dental school graduate, left the East Coast to open a dental practice…
In 1901, Frederick McKay, a young dental school graduate, left the East Coast to open a dental practice…
In 1901, the first three human blood groups were discovered by Austrian physician Karl Landsteiner.
In 1901, German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer identified the first case of what is now known as Alzheimer’s disease…
In 1901, German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for his…
In 1899, Charles E. Frosst & Co, was founded by Mr. Frosst and four associates who rapidly introduced…
On Jul. 16, 1898, 400 members of the Fifteenth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry were hospitalized with typhoid after camping…
On Aug. 20, 1897, Sir Ronald Ross made his landmark discovery. While dissecting the stomach tissue of an…
In 1897, Maxwell W. Becton and Fairleigh S. Dickinson established Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) in New York,…
On Jan. 5, 1896, an Austrian newspaper (Wiener Presse) reported that German physicist Wilhelm Rontgen had discovered a…
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 ᅠ& ᅠJohnson 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…
On Mar. 24, 1882, German scientist Robert Koch announced to the Berlin Physiological Society that he had discovered…
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…
In 1867, the medical college for women at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children was founded….
In 1866, John Langdon Down, a British doctor, described what is now known as “Down syndrome” named after…
In 1866, Lucy Hobbs became the first woman in the world to receive a doctorate in dentistry. She…
On Jan. 27, 1864, William Worrall Mayo opened a medical practice in Rochester, Minnesota. He had been directed…
In 1857, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, her sister, Dr. Emily Blackwell, and Dr. Marie Zakrzewska founded the New York…
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…