On Oct. 1, 1872, the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (Virginia Tech) was founded. The Virginia Polytechnic Institute…
On Sept. 20, 1870, the Iowa College of Medicine opened doors for its first class. The faculty consisted…
In 1870, Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward was the first African-American woman to ever earn a medical degree…
In 1867, the medical college for women at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children was founded….
On Jan. 27, 1864, William Worrall Mayo opened a medical practice in Rochester, Minnesota. He had been directed…
In 1861, Julian John Chisolm (Dean, 1866-67, School of Medicine of the Medical College of the State of…
In 1857, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, her sister, Dr. Emily Blackwell, and Dr. Marie Zakrzewska founded the New York…
In 1853, the first marine hospital in San Francisco was completed with special funds appropriated by Congress. The…
On Oct. 6, 1852, the American Pharmaceutical Association (APhA) was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the fall of…
On Feb. 5, 1849, the first class of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with 17 students, met in a…
On Sept. 20, 1848, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) was founded which marked the…
On Mar. 16, 1844, John Bostock, Jr., an English physician, published the first description of allergies in Medico-Chirurgical…
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 1826, Dr. James Barry, a Royal British Army surgeon, performed the worlds first successful cesarean operation. It…
In 1818, the first successful transfusion of human blood to a patient was performed by British obstetrician James…
In 1801, The first marine hospital owned by the Federal Government was purchased from the State of Virginia….
On Jul. 16, 1798, the Marine Hospital Service, predecessor to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was established…
In 1798, Edward Jenner published his work on the development of a vaccination that would protect against smallpox….
On May 14, 1796, English scientist and physician Edward Jenner inoculated 8-year old James Phipps with the world’s…
On Jul. 31, 1790, Samuel Hopkins was issued the first patent under the new U.S. patent statute signed…
On Dec. 11, 1789, the University of North Carolina (UNC) was founded. The UNC was the first public…
In 1777, George Washington mandated inoculation for all Continental soldiers against smallpox which had impacted the Continental Army…
On Jun. 26, 1721, smallpox broke out in Boston, threatening to devastate the City. Zabdiel Boylston Adams, a…
On Jun. 15, 1667, the first successful blood transfusions from sheep to humans were reported separately by Jean-Baptiste…
Early Chinese medical writings in approximately 3600 B.C. were the first to record the decreases in goiter size…