Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle was published
On Feb. 27, 1906, Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle was published. The book gave graphic descriptions of the…
On Feb. 27, 1906, Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle was published. The book gave graphic descriptions of the…
In 1906, Walter W. King showed the transmission of Rocky Mountain spotted fever by infected ticks to guinea…
In 1903, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) was founded. The current organization was formed in…
In 1902, the Pan American Sanitary Bureau was established as the first of a series of international health…
In 1902, Julius O. Cobb and John F. Anderson initiated first Hygienic Laboratory studies on Rocky Mountain spotted…
In March 1900, Chick Gin, the Chinese proprietor of a lumberyard, died of bubonic plague in a flophouse…
In 1900, american military surgeon Walter Reed discovered that a virus causes yellow fever, a mosquito-borne hemmorrhagic disease…
In 1900, the three leading causes of death in the United States were tuberculosis, pneumonia, and diarrheal enteritis…
On Jan. 10, 1897, Russian physician Waldemar M. W. Haffkine, who trained with Louis Pasteur in Paris, tested…
In 1892, President Benjamin Harrison, trying to prevent av Asiatic cholera epidemic, had Surgeon General Thomas J. Parran,…
In 1873, Gerhard-Henrik Armauer Hansen published his report that claimed leprosy to be an infectious disease with a…
On April 18, 1866, the steamer Virginia arrived in New York from Liverpool, its passengers riddled with cholera….
In 1861, Julian John Chisolm (Dean, 1866-67, School of Medicine of the Medical College of the State of…
In 1848, the New England Female Medical College was founded, becoming the first institution in the U.S. to…
In 1840, German scientist Dr Jacob von Heine conducted the first systematic investigation of polio and developed the…
In 1832, New York mandated in June that no ship can approach within 300 yards of any dock…
In 1832, Asiatic cholera epidemic hit New York City with particular ferocity. Sanitary cordons, or quarantine, were the…
In 1817, James Parkinson published an essay on six cases of paralysis agitans known as Shaking Palsy. Other…
In 1800, a yellow fever outbreak killed 1,200 people in Baltimore. The presence of an abundance of mosquito-breeding…
In 1801, Benjamin Waterhouse, a professor at the Massachusetts Medical College of Harvard University, conducted the first small…
On May 14, 1796, English scientist and physician Edward Jenner inoculated 8-year old James Phipps with the world’s…
On Aug. 1, 1793, it was reported that a fever, now known as ‘Yellow Fever’ killed more than…
In 1793, after 31 years of absence a yellow fever epidemic struck Philadelphia killing thousands of city residents…
On Dec. 24, 1789, the Medical Society of South Carolina was founded in Charleston on Christmas Eve by…
On Jun. 26, 1721, smallpox broke out in Boston, threatening to devastate the City. Zabdiel Boylston Adams, a…
On May 25, 1720, the Great Plague of Marseille began with the arrival of the Grand St Antoine…
In 1712, a plague epidemic around the Baltic Sea led England to pass the Quarantine Act that required…
In 1697, a Massachusetts statute stipulated that all individuals suffering from plague, smallpox, and other infectious diseases must…
In 1666, the city of Frankfurt, Germany issued a decree prohibiting people living in plague-infected houses from visiting…
In 1665 a tailor from Eyam ordered a box of materials relating to his trade from London, that…