In Jul. 1943, Construction of the original Madigan General Hospital began during the height of World War II…
In 1945, the inactivated influenza vaccine was first licensed in the U.S. The first vaccine was an inactivated,…
On Sept. 22, 1944, the War Department General Order Number 76 officially redesignated Fort Lewis General Hospital as…
In 1943, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) established at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
On Aug. 27, 1942, chemotherapy was first used to treat a cancer patient and the beginning of its…
In 1942, influenza A/B vaccine was introduced to the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board. The vaccine was effective against…
On Feb. 4, 1941, the Red Cross began a National Blood Donor Service to collect blood for the…
On Nov. 11, 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) laid the cornerstone of the Tower on Armistice Day…
In 1940, the U.S. government established a national blood collection program. That same year the National Research Council…
In 1938, University of Iowa researcher Elmer DeGowin developed the first reliable methods of preserving and shipping blood,…
In 1938, Thomas Francis, Jr., MD and Jonas Salk, MD served as lead researchers at the University of…
On Feb. 28, 1929, the Walter Reed Medal, a military decoration of the U.S. Army was created by…
In 1923, General John J. Pershing signed the order creating the Army Medical Center on the same campus…
In 1923, Atherton Seidell was a renowned research chemist who developed a physiological test for the activity of…
In 1919, Dr. Louis T. Wright became the first African American physician at Harlem Hospital. Wright earned a…
On Oct. 4, 1918, Washington, D.C. physicians were ordered to report all influenza cases and isolate patients. Public…
On Sept. 28, 1918, the Naval Reserve Station at Los Angeles Harbor was placed under quarantine as a…
On Sept. 22, 1918, Cleveland received its first warning of the influenza epidemic from City Health Commissioner Dr….
In 1918 Army General Hospital 21, also know as the Fitzsimons Life Science District, became the first medical…
In 1914, the first typhoid vaccine was licensed in the U.S. in 1914. Typhoid immunization was required of…
On Sept. 30, 1911, typhoid immunization became required of all U.S. service members. The U.S. Army became the…
On May 1, 1909, Walter Reed General Hospital in Washington, DC admitted its first patient. The Commander of…
On Jul. 16, 1898, 400 members of the Fifteenth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry were hospitalized with typhoid after camping…
On Apr. 3, 1879, John B. Hamilton began service as Supervising Surgeon (later known as U.S. Surgeon General),…
In 1866, the Library of Medicine occupied space in the Riggs Bank building and in the former Ford’s…
In Apr. 1863, Dr. Alexander Thomas Augusta became the first African American commissioned medical officer in the United…
In Sept. 1863, Mary Edwards Walker was employed as a “Contract Acting Assistant Surgeon” by the Army of…
In 1836, The Library of the Office of the Surgeon General of the Army (the present U.S. National…
In 1826, Dr. James Barry, a Royal British Army surgeon, performed the worlds first successful cesarean operation. It…
On Sept. 19, 1782, the Harvard Medical School was founded by Dr. John Warren a graduate of Harvard…