Florence Sabin became the first woman to serve as a faculty member at Johns Hopkins
In 1871, Florence Sabin became the first woman to serve as a faculty member at Johns Hopkins. became…
In 1871, Florence Sabin became the first woman to serve as a faculty member at Johns Hopkins. became…
On Sept. 20, 1870, the Iowa College of Medicine opened doors for its first class. The faculty consisted…
In 1770, Benjamin Franklin, the colony of Pennsylvania’s ambassador, sends home from Europe seeds he calls Chinese caravances…
In 1870, Epidermolysis bullosa (EB) was first described by Ferdinand Ritter Von Hebra, an Austrian physician and dermatologist….
In 1870, breeders crossbreed cotton, developing hundreds of varieties with superior qualities.
In 1870, Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward was the first African-American woman to ever earn a medical degree…
On Jul. 20, 1869, Children’s hospital was founded in Boston by Dr. Francis Henry Brown, a Civil War…
In 1869, hemileia vastatrix, a microbial disease deadly to coffee trees, wipes out the coffee industry in the…
In 1869, DNA is discovered in the sperm of trout from the Rhine River by Swiss chemist Frederick…
In 1869, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), was founded, and one of the nation’s premier land-grant institutions. UNL…
On Mar. 23, 1868, the University of California (UC) was founded, and in 1869 the University opened its…
In 1868, the University of Alabama’s Medical College reopened in Mobile following the Civil War. In 1820, the…
In 1868, Wayne State University was founded by five physicians who witnessed the crude medical treatment on Civil…
In 1867, Paris or Emerald Green (copper(II) acetoarsenite), the first chemical insecticide, used against the Colorado potato beetle,…
In 1867, the medical college for women at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children was founded….
In 1867, less than a quarter century after the Oregon Trail opened, and only eight years after Oregon…
In 1867, The Medical Department of Hampden-Sydney Collegeメs first outpatient clinic was established.
On April 18, 1866, the steamer Virginia arrived in New York from Liverpool, its passengers riddled with cholera….
In 1866, the Library of Medicine occupied space in the Riggs Bank building and in the former Ford’s…
In 1866, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) was incorporated as the first humane…
In 1866, John Langdon Down, a British doctor, described what is now known as “Down syndrome” named after…
In 1866, The New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanical Arts (University of New Hampshire) was founded.
In 1866, The Metropolitan Board of Health was established in New York City at the suggestion of the…
In 1866, Lucy Hobbs became the first woman in the world to receive a doctorate in dentistry. She…
In 1866, the Legislature designated the University of Wisconsin as the Wisconsin land-grant institution.
In 1865, Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel, the father of modern genetics, presented his laws of heredity to the…
In 1865, John Shaw Billings, MD, 27-year-old lieutenant colonel, pathologist and bibliophile, assigned to supervise the Surgeon General’s…
In 1865, Cargill was founded by William W. Cargill as a small grain elevator in Conover, Iowa. In…
In 1865, The Bayer Company acquired an interest in its first coal-tar dyes factory in Albany, New York.
On Jan. 27, 1864, William Worrall Mayo opened a medical practice in Rochester, Minnesota. He had been directed…