Baylor College of Medicine was founded
On Oct. 30, 1900, the Baylor College of Medicine was founded, and was affiliated with Baylor University from…
On Oct. 30, 1900, the Baylor College of Medicine was founded, and was affiliated with Baylor University from…
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 science of genetics was born when Gregor Mendel’s work was rediscovered by three scientists –…
In 1900, drosophila (fruit flies) were first used in early studies of genes.
In 1900, the three leading causes of death in the United States were tuberculosis, pneumonia, and diarrheal enteritis…
In 1900, the city of San Francisco’s quarantine of Chinatown ruled discriminatory, but city health officials conducted house-to-house…
In 1900, the Yale Forestry School, now the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, was established as the…
In 1900, Dr. Robert F. Boyd, a physician and dentist, became the first president of the National Medical…
In 1900, the Medical College of Virginia lengthened its medical curriculum to four years. It was among the…
On Mar. 6, 1899, Bayer, based in Germany, introduced a newly patented pain relief product under the trademark…
In 1899, Charles E. Frosst & Co, was founded by Mr. Frosst and four associates who rapidly introduced…
In 1899, Johnson ᅠ&ᅠ Johnson becomes the first to mass produce dental floss to make it affordable so…
In 1899, Association of Official Agricultural Chemists (now AOAC International) established a Committee on Food Standards headed by…
In 1899, German scientists Friedrich Loffler and Paul Frosch discovered that foot-and-mouth disease which affects cattle, swine, sheep,…
In 1899, the USDA created the Section of Seed and Plant Introduction, which assigns its first Plant Introduction…
In 1899, Claude Beck successfully revived a patient for the first time using a defibrillator with paddles of…
In 1899, Jean-Louis Provost and Frederic Batelli at the University of Geneva, Switzerland discovered that small electrical shocks…
In 1899, Storrs Agricultural College became Connecticut Agricultural College. Storrs Agricultural School was founded in 1881 and was…
In 1899, Lord Dooley, the “Lord of Misrule” and the “Spirit of Emory,” emerged as Emory College’s unofficial…
In 1899, Flathead Lake Biological Station (FLBS) established near Bigfork in 1899 by Dr. Morton J. Elrod, Distinguished…
On Jul. 16, 1898, 400 members of the Fifteenth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry were hospitalized with typhoid after camping…
In 1898, the University of Iowa opened a new 65-bed hospital, built on the same site of the…
In 1898, Elliott P. Joslin, M.D., opened a private practice on Beacon Street in Boston that in 1952…
In 1898, Clinton Pharmaceutical’s (Bristol-Myers) first nationally recognized product, termed a poor man’s spa by chief chemist J….
In 1898, Bristol and Myers changed the name from Clinton to Bristol, Myers Company (a hyphen would replace…
In 1898, the Gratwick Research Laboratory, now known as the Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) was founded by…
In 1898, the first women were admitted to the Medical College of the State of South Carolina (MCSSC)….
In 1898, the Medical College of Virginia etablished a School of Pharmacy with a two-year program.
On Aug. 20, 1897, Sir Ronald Ross made his landmark discovery. While dissecting the stomach tissue of an…