Johnsonᅠ &ᅠ Johnson acquired McNeil Laboratories
In 1959, Johnson ᅠ&ᅠ Johnson acquired McNeil Laboratories giving the Company a significant presence in the growing field…
In 1959, Johnson ᅠ&ᅠ Johnson acquired McNeil Laboratories giving the Company a significant presence in the growing field…
On Jan. 26, 1953, World Leprosy Day was established by Raoul Follereau a French writer and journalist. This…
In 1952, the first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) was published and…
On Apr. 16, 1943, Albert Hofmann tested synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) on himself. LSD-25, as originally known…
In 1943, Leo Kanner, a child psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University, published the first clinical description of 11…
On Sept. 6, 1940, Karl Habel produced an improved, killed rabies vaccine that eliminated foreign brain tissue that…
On Jul. 4, 1939, baseball legend Lou Gehrig delivered the famous speech bidding farewell to the ballpark and…
On Nov. 16, 1938, Albert Hofmann at Sandoz synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). LSD-25, as originally known when…
In 1936, Albert Sabin and Peter Olitsky at the Rockefeller Institute successfully grew poliovirus in a culture of…
In 1923, William Mansfield Clark from the U.S. Department of Agriculture alerted the public to the dangers of…
In 1916, Guillain-Barr syndrome (GBS), also known as Landry-Guillain-Barr-Strohl syndrome, was described. Its incidence in North America and…
On Aug. 14, 1915, Hans Lundbeck founded a company in Copenhagen, Denmark, which dealt in everything from machinery…
In 1911, Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler coined the term ‘autism,’ borrowing from the Eugen Bleuler Greek word ‘autos’…
On Jul. 15, 1910, the term Alzheimer’s disease was first used by German psychiatrist Dr. Emil Kraepelin to…
In 1901, German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer identified the first case of what is now known as Alzheimer’s disease…
On Aug. 10, 1897, German chemist Felix Hoffmann searching for something to relieve his father’s arthritis synthesized acetylsalicylic…
On Nov. 27, 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris. He specified…
On Oct. 12, 1872, the Legislature established the University of Oregon (UO) in Eugene. The UO officially opened…
In 1817, James Parkinson published an essay on six cases of paralysis agitans known as Shaking Palsy. This paper…