Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, DC admitted its first patient
On May 1, 1909, Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, DC admitted its first patient. The Commander of…
On May 1, 1909, Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, DC admitted its first patient. The Commander of…
In 1909, the Legislature purchased the present University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) campus site for $20,000, and…
On Apr. 24, 1908, Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler coined the term ‘schizophrenia’ at a lecture at a meeting…
In 1908, Dr. Karl Landsteiner at the University Department of Pathological Anatomy in Vienna discovered that the cause…
On Nov. 15, 1907, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) held its first annual meeting at the…
On May 7, 1907, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) was founded when eleven laboratory scientists and…
In 1907, Dr. Sara Josephine Baker and sanitation engineer. George Soper at the New York City Department of…
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, the Nobel Prize in Physics was divided, one half awarded to Antoine Henri Becquerel “in recognition…
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 1901, Frederick McKay, a young dental school graduate, left the East Coast to open a dental practice…
In 1901, German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer identified the first case of what is now known as Alzheimer’s disease…
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 1896, Shodair Children’s Hospital was founded. In 1987, Shodair Children’s Hospital became a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital…
In 1892, President Benjamin Harrison, trying to prevent av Asiatic cholera epidemic, had Surgeon General Thomas J. Parran,…
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 1873, Gerhard-Henrik Armauer Hansen published his report that claimed leprosy to be an infectious disease with a…
In 1871, Florence Sabin became the first woman to serve as a faculty member at Johns Hopkins. became…
In 1868, Wayne State University was founded by five physicians who witnessed the crude medical treatment on Civil…
In 1867, the medical college for women at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children was founded….
On April 18, 1866, the steamer Virginia arrived in New York from Liverpool, its passengers riddled with cholera….
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…