Charles Armstrong showed bunion pads used to cover smallpox vaccinations were contaminated with tetanus spores
In 1925, Charles Armstrong showed that 25% of commercial bunion pads commonly used to cover smallpox vaccinations were…
In 1925, Charles Armstrong showed that 25% of commercial bunion pads commonly used to cover smallpox vaccinations were…
In 1925, Rolla E. Dyer, a senior scientist at NIH, defined the unit for scarlet fever streptococcus antitoxin.
In 1925, Joseph W. Schereschewsky, head of a PHS Special Cancer Investigations Laboratory established in 1922 in Cambridge,…
In 1925, Nikolai Vavilov led Russian plant hunters on the first attempt to “cover the globe” in search…
On Dec. 11, 1924, The Scripps Metabolic Clinic, a predecessor of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), was founded…
On Nov. 6, 1924, the dream of Dr. Orlando P. Christian, the Society’s first superintendent, and Arkansas Childrenメs…
On Jun. 2, 1924, in U.S. v. 95 Barrels Alleged Apple Cider Vinegar, the Supreme Court ruled that…
On May 1, 1924, iodized salt first became available on grocery shelves in Michigan, spurred largely by the…
On Feb. 14, 1924, the Harrison Narcotic Act required prescriptions for products exceeding the allowable limit of narcotics…
Between 1924-1925, smallpox hit Minnesota and more than five hundred people died – four hundred in the Twin…
In 1924, Roscoe R. Spencer and Ralph R. Parker produced a vaccine against Rocky Mountain spotted fever, the…
In 1924, Leo Rigler was appointed associate professor of radiology at the University of Minnesota. Rigler obtained full…
In 1924, Johnsonᅠ &ᅠ Johnson established first overseas operating company in the United Kingdom.
In 1924, Bristol-Myers’ gross profits topped $1 million and its products were sold in 26 countries. Shares held…
On Oct. 14, 1923, plans were announced for Doernbecher Memorial Hospital for Children. Frank S. Doernbecher was a…
On May 30, 1923, movie star Rudolph Valentino visited Seattle’s Children’s Orthopedic Hospital during his only known visit…
In 1923, Dr. Virgil P. Sydenstricker published the first documented case of sickle cell disease, with full autopsy…
In 1923, Eli Lilly and Company introduced Iletin, the world’s first commercially available insulin product.
In 1923, Eliot Cutler performed the worldメs first successful heart valve surgery at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital,…
In 1923, Multnomah County Hospital opens on the Marquam Hill campus and contracts with the medical school to…
In 1923, the Priestley Medal, named for Joseph Priestley, was awarded for first time by the American Chemical…
In 1923, Dr. Frederick Banting and Dr. J. MacLeod win the Nobel Prize for their work isolating insulin.
In 1923, William Mansfield Clark from the U.S. Department of Agriculture alerted the public to the dangers of…
In 1923, Atherton Seidell was a renowned research chemist who developed a physiological test for the activity of…
In 1923, more than 50,000 foreign plants had been introduced into the United States since 1862 by the…
In 1923, diphtheria toxoid was licensed; prepared from the inactivated bacterial toxin that has lost its toxicity but…
In 1923, General John J. Pershing signed the order creating the Army Medical Center on the same campus…
On Nov. 10, 1922, Carl Voegtlin, J. M. Johnson, and Helen Dyer announced they had co-published an article…
On Sept. 10, 1922, the Arkansas Childrenメs Home Society moved into the newly-named ‘C.A. Forney-Smith Receiving Home.’ The…
In 1922, the Priestley Medal, named for Joseph Priestley, was awarded for first time by the American Chemical…