The Surgeon General issued an order that required all ships entering U.S. ports be quarantined twenty days
In 1892, President Benjamin Harrison, trying to prevent av Asiatic cholera epidemic, had Surgeon General Thomas J. Parran,…
In 1892, President Benjamin Harrison, trying to prevent av Asiatic cholera epidemic, had Surgeon General Thomas J. Parran,…
On Jun. 1, 1881, Walter Wyman began service as Supervising Surgeon (renamed U.S. Surgeon General in 1902). He…
Between 1884-1895, Milton J. Rosenau, Leslie L. Lumsen, Joseph H. Kastle and other Hygienic Laboratory workers conducted an…
On Apr. 3, 1879, John B. Hamilton began service as Supervising Surgeon (later known as U.S. Surgeon General),…
In 1836, The Library of the Office of the Surgeon General of the Army (the present U.S. National…
On Jul. 16, 1798, the Marine Hospital Service, predecessor to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was established…