Walter W. King showed transmission of Rocky Mountain spotted fever by infected ticks to guinea pigs
In 1906, Walter W. King showed the transmission of Rocky Mountain spotted fever by infected ticks to guinea…
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…
In 1861, Julian John Chisolm (Dean, 1866-67, School of Medicine of the Medical College of the State of…
In 1857, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, her sister, Dr. Emily Blackwell, and Dr. Marie Zakrzewska founded the New York…
On Nov. 4, 1854, pioneering British nurse Florence Nightingale brought a team of women nurses to the Crimean…
On Jan. 6, 1853, Florida Governor Thomas Brown signed a bill that provided public support to higher education,…
On Sept. 20, 1848, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) was founded which marked the…
In 1848, the New England Female Medical College was founded, becoming the first institution in the U.S. to…
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…