The Medical Society of South Carolina Granted Charter by State Assembly
On Dec. 20, 1823, the South Carolina General Assembly granted the request of the Medical Society of South…
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…
In 1817, James Parkinson published an essay on six cases of paralysis agitans known as Shaking Palsy. This paper…
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…
In 1801, The first marine hospital owned by the Federal Government was purchased from the State of Virginia….
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 Dec. 11, 1789, the University of North Carolina (UNC) was founded. The UNC was the first public…
On Nov. 1, 1781, the Massachusetts Medical Society was established, and its charter was signed by Samuel Adams,…
In 1777, George Washington mandated inoculation for all Continental soldiers against smallpox which had impacted the Continental Army…
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 1370, the town of Ragusa in Italy established a quarantine station where all people arriving from plague-infected…
In 1346, during a siege of Kaffa (now Feodosia, Ukraine), the Tartar army catapulted bodies of plague victims…
In 1285, spectacles were invented in Italy using convex lenses for the farsighted. The “Glasses Apostle” painting in…
In 470, Atossa, daughter of Cyrius the Great became the first women in recorded history to be diagnosed…
The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, dated to 3,000-2,500 B.C., and possibly attributable to Imhotep, the Egyptian physician-architect, provided…
Early Chinese medical writings in approximately 3600 B.C. were the first to record the decreases in goiter size…
Evidence from 4,800 to 3,700 years ago suggested the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis, first arrived in Europe during…