On Sept. 20, 1848, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) was founded which marked the…
On Jul. 26, 1848, Nelson Dewey, Wisconsin’s first governor, signed the act that formally created the University of…
On Jun. 26, 1848, the Drug Importation Act was passed by Congress. The act required imported drugs to…
In 1848, the New England Female Medical College was founded, becoming the first institution in the U.S. to…
On Feb 25, 1847, the State University of Iowa, now known as the University of Iowa, was founded…
In 1847, the precursor to the actual Pontifical Academy of Sciences was the “Linceorum Academia,” which was founded…
In 1847, the Yale College Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was founded as the ‘Department of Philosophy…
In 1847, James Moultrie, Jr., M.D. (Dean, School of Medicine of the Medical College of the State of…
On Oct. 16, 1846, Harvard Medical School’s first dean, Dr. John Collins Warren, provided the first public demonstration…
In 1846, Peter Panum described the highly contagious nature, the 14-day incubation period, and the induction of lifelong…
In 1846, Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis, known as the ‘Savior of Mothers,’ discovered that cases of puerperal fever, also…
In 1846, Lewis Caleb Beck’s published “Adulteration of Various Substances Used in Medicine and the Arts,” one of…
In late 1845 and 1846, a summer blight ravaged Ireland’s potato crop. It is estimated that more than…
On Mar. 16, 1844, John Bostock, Jr., an English physician, published the first description of allergies in Medico-Chirurgical…
In 1844, The Medical Department of Hampden-Sydney College moved into its first permanent home, the Egyptian Building.
In 1843, Harvard Medical School dean and physician Oliver Wendall Holmes discovered the cause and prevention of childhood…
On Mar. 30, 1842, Dr. Crawford Long, an American physician and pharmacist in Jefferson, Georgia, used ether for…
In 1840, After a devastating tornado ripped through Rochester, Mother Alfred Moes and the Sisters of Saint Francis…
In 1840, the British government passed the Vaccination Act of 1840, an act that provided free vaccinations for…
In 1840, German scientist Dr Jacob von Heine conducted the first systematic investigation of polio and developed the…
In 1840, Emil Mallinckrodt acquired a land in the Bremen area of St. Louis, which became the site…
In 1839, the U.S. Congress puts $1,000 into the Congressional Seed Distribution Program, administered by the U.S. Patent…
In 1839, the University of Missouri was founded after the Missouri legislature passed the Geyer Act, legislation that…
In 1839, two medical colleges merged into the the Medical College of the State of South Carolina. In…
On Sept. 17, 1838, Emory College classes began for fifteen students. The College was founded in 1836 by…
In 1838, The Medical Department of Hampden-Sydney College opened in Hampden Sydney, Virginia. The first Dean of the…
In 1838, The state territorial legislature passed a bill to establish a University of Wisconsin ‘at or near…
In 1837, Dr. James McCune Smith became the first African American to hold a medical degree. Smith, a…
In 1837, the University of Alabama became the first in the state to offer engineering classes. It was…
On Oct. 2, 1836, British naturalist Charles Darwin returned to England from the voyage of the “Beagle.” Darwin,…