In 1916, French-Canadian bacteriologist Felix-Hubert D’Herelle discovered viruses that prey on bacteria and named them bacteriophages or bacteria…
In 1916, George Harrison Shull accepted a professorship at Princeton University. At his instigation, Princeton University Press began…
In 1916, Guillain-Barr syndrome (GBS), also known as Landry-Guillain-Barr-Strohl syndrome, was described. Its incidence in North America and…
In 1916, the Hancock Agricultural Research Station, a 412-acre vegetable research farm, was founded in central Wisconsin. The…
On Aug. 14, 1915, Hans Lundbeck founded a company in Copenhagen, Denmark, which dealt in everything from machinery…
In 1915, Yamagiwa Katsusaburo, a Japanese pathologist, was the first to prove chemical carcinogenesis when he gave coal…
In 1915, Richard Lewishon found that sodium citrate added to freshly drawn blood prevents clotting (coagulation). This discovery…
In 1915, Pertussis vaccine, a suspension of inactivated Bordetella pertussis cells, was licensed. Inactivated vaccines were prepared with…
In 1914, Yale University received an endowment from the Anna M. R. Lauder family to establish a chair…
In 1915, Asa Candler, the founder of The Coca-Cola Company and brother to former Emory University President Warren…
In 1915, Alice Ball became the first African American and the first woman to graduate with a M.S….
On Dec. 17, 1914. the Harrison Narcotic Act was passed by the U.S. Congress which mandated narcotic and…
On Feb. 24, 1914, the U.S. Supreme Court issued, in U.S. v. Lexington Mill and Elevator Company, its…
In 1914, Phages, or bacterial viruses, were discovered by Frederick Twort. He researched Johne’s disease, a chronic intestinal…
In 1914, long-term anticoagulants were first developed, including sodium citrate. This allowed for improved blood preservation.
In 1914, the first modern sewage plant, designed to treat sewage with bacteria, opened in Manchester, England. There…
In 1914, Joseph Goldberger identified pellagra as a nutritional deficiency disease. Goldberger designed and implemented two experiments to…
In 1914, Walter L. Treadway conducted first Hygienic Laboratory survey on mental health studying the role of public…
In 1914, the first typhoid vaccine was licensed in the U.S. in 1914. Typhoid immunization was required of…
In 1914, the tetanus toxoid was introduced following the development of an effective therapeutic serum against tetanus by…
In 1914, at Harvard Medical School, Paul Dudley White introduced the electrocardiograph to the U.S. The original electrocardiograph…
In 1914, Garrett Augustus Morgan, a prolific inventor, submitted a patent for the first gas mask. Morgan’s first…
In 1914, rabies vaccine was first licensed in the U.S. The H. K. Mulford Company, founded in Philadelphia…
In 1914, the first ‘mechanical lung’, developed by Charles Morgan Hammond, M.D., passed its first clinical test at…
In 1914, George William Hunter’s A Civic Biology, the book later used in biology courses in Dayton, Tenn.,…
In 1914, University of Minnesota president Dr. George E. Vincent approached Drs. William and Charles Mayo to form…
In 1914, Listerine was introduced as an antiseptic. Listerine was first formulated in 1879 by chemist Joseph Lawrence…
On May 22, 1913, The American Society for the Control of Cancer was created at a meeting of…
On Mar. 3, 1913, the Gould Amendment, sponsored by Rep. Samuel W. Gould of Maine, which required that…
In 1913, the first known article on cancer’s warning signs was published in the popular women’s magazine (Ladies’…