Semester 2 - 2006
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Biology Review
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The Food and Drug Administration approved the Sabin live attenuated oral polio vaccine (1960). |
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London doctors reported using the first CAT (computerized axial tomography) scan (1973) Sir Godfrey Hounsfeld developed this method of x-ray imaging. |
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Guy's Hospital in London reported that x-rays prove useful in detecting tuberculosis (1910) |
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The first printed editon of Greek physician Galen's Opera was published in Venice (1490). Galen (131-210 A.D.), was the foremost medical authority for almost fourteen centuries. |
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The Tariff Act, placing a levy of seventy-five cents per pound of opium was decreed (1842). |
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Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821-1894), physicist, pathologist and anatomist, who contributed to the study of electrodynamics, was born in Potsdam, Germany |
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Residents stormed the Quarantine Station on Staten Island, New York, angry over its ineffectiveness against yellow fever epidemics (1858). The citizens were supported by the local courts. |
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The first cardiac operation using induced hypothermia was performed by Floyd John Lewis at the Medical School of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (1952). |
3 Exam Biochemistry/Cell Lecture and Activities Somatropin, the growth hormone in the pituitary gland, was discovered (1931). |
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Insulin was produced through genetic engineering in San Francisco (1978). |
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Scottish surgeon, James Syme (1799-1870), performed the first successful amputation of the foot at the ankle joint (1842). The procedure is known as "Syme's amputation." |
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Ludwig Rehn (1849-1930) successfully sutured a wound to the heart in Frankfut, Germany (1896). He was the first to repair a human heart successfully. |
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Thomas Sydenham (1624-1930), a founder of modern clinical medicine and epidemiology, and an advocate of Hippocratic methods of observation, was born in Wynford Eagle, Dorset, England |
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The California State Legislature approved the nation's first right-to-die law (1976). |
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Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936), who received the 1904 Nobel Prize in physiology and medcine for his work on the physiology of digestion, was born in Ryazan, the Soviet Union. |
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Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) reported the discovery of penicillin (1928). |
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Opthamologist Carl Koller (1857-1944) used cocaine as a local anesthic for eye surgery for the first time (1884). |
17 Exam Isabel Dutch naturalist Antonj van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) first saw individual protozoa and bacteria under the microscope (1683). |
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A report confirming that DNA holds hereditary data of virus reproduction was published (1952) by Alfred Hershey and Martha Cowles Chase. |
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The first trial of cortisone for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis was conducted at the Mayo Clinic (1948). |
22 Michael Faraday (1792-1867), a chemist who formulated laws of electrolysis and discovered electromagnetic induction was born in Newington Butts, near London. |
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"Marcus Welby, M.D.," made its TV debut (1969). |
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The first forensic autopsy in the United States was performed in Maryland (1657). |
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The British Association for the Advancement of Science was formed (1831). |
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Congress passed the Toxic Substances Control Act, Requiring testing of chemical products for potential health and environmental dangers prior to marketing (1976). |
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The Philippine Health Service was established in Manila (1901). |
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William T. G. Morton (1819-1868) performed the first tooth extraction using ether as an anesthetic (1846). |
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1 Harvey W. Cushing (1869-1939) used a new electrosurgical instrument to remove a brain tumor (1926). His success improved survival rates of patients with brain tumors. |
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The College of Physicians and Surgeons in Chicago was incorporated (1805). |
5 The first edition of Averroe's (1126-1198) encyclopedic Liber universalis de medicina qui dicitur Colliget was published in Ferrara, Italy (1482). |
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The American Pharmaceutical Association was organized in Philadelphia (1852). |
7 Meeting at Chesapeake 3 PM Harvard University Medical School opened in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1783). The first commencement was in 1788. In 1810 the school was moved to Boston. |
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Wilhelm K. Rontgen (1845-1923) observed X-rays for the first time (1896). Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize in physics in 1901 for his discovery. |
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The United States Food and Drug Administration required cosmetics manufacturers to list ingredients on the labels of all products (1973). |
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The Eastern Lunatic Asylum, the first American state hospital for the mentally ill opened in Williamsburg, Virginia (1773). |
13 Rudolph Virchow (1821-1902). a pioneer of cellular pathology, was born in Schivelbein, Pomerania, Germany. |
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The first edition of Jean Ganviet's treatise on astrological medicine, Amicus medicorum, was published in Lyon, France (1496). |
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The Cancer Ward by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918- ) was published in the United States (1968). |
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The Boston Medical Library opened with Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) as its president (1875). |
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The Miracle Worker, a drama based on the early life of Helen Keller (1880-1968), opened on Broadway (1959). |
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Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680), a physician who described the lymphatic system, was born in Copenhagen. |
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Sir Humphrey Davy (1778-1829) announced his discovery of sodium (1807). He also isolated potassium, calcium, barium, and magnesium and invented the safety lamp for coal miners. |
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t was estimated that one-fourth of the United States population was stricken by an epidemic of influenza (1918). |
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The hepatitis virus was identified (1984). |
26 Connective and Muscle Practicum The Embryology of Bone Lectures
A baboon heart was transplanted into twelve-day-old "Baby Fae" at Loma Linda University Hospital. She survived for fifteen days (1984). |
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Michael DeBakey (1908- ), of Baylor University Medical School, announced the first successfully implanted heart-pumping device (1963). |
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Jonas Edward Salk (1914- ), microbiologist who developed the first polio vaccine, was born in New York City. |
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Physician and surgeon, Thomas Bond (1712-1784), performed lithotomy (Surgical removal of a stone or stones from the urinary tract) in Philadelphia (1756), the first of these surgeries in the United States. |
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The Boston Female Medical School, the first American women's medical school, was organized (1848). |
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The Health Training Improvement Act was passed in the United States (1970). It provided authority for grants to schools of medicine and allied health sciences. |
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An electrocardiograph or string galvanometer was described in the Netherlands (1903) by Willem Einthoven (1860-1927). He was a 1924 Nobel laureate in medicine and physiology for his invention. |
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Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) arrived in the Crimea with thirty-eight nurses to care for the war casualities (1854). She modernized nursing; in 1907 she was the first woman to receive the Order of Merit. |
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The first edition of Bavario de Bavarii's Consilia medica was published in Bologna, Italy (1489). |
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Mermann Rorschach (1884-1922) psychiatrist who developed the perceptual ink blot test, was born in Zurich, Switzerland. |
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Chlorothiazide was first used for the treatment of hypertension, in Houston, Texas (1956). |
10 Oral Exam Paracelsus, also known as Phillipus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541), alchemist and physician, was born in Einsiedein, Switzerland. |
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Firmin Marbeau founded day nurseries in France for the infants and children of working mothers (1844). |
12 Oral Exam The American Medical Association issued a statement saying that doctors have an ethical obligation to treat patients with AIDS (1987). |
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Pre-Lesson Knee Replacement Dentist 3:30 PM A prohibition of public bathing in a common tub was passed in Nuremberg, Germany, to prevent contagious disease (1496). |
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A dental mallet was patented by William G. A. Bonwill (1833-1899) of Philadelphia (1875). The patent was for "electro-magnetic dental pluggers" used to tap gold into tooth cavities. |
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The first American dental hygiene course was inaugurated by Alfred C. Fones at the Fones Clinc in Bridgeport, Connecticut (1913). Thirty-three women enrolled. |
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The first tuberculosis hospital in the United States run by the government for the indigent opened in Fort Stanton, New Mexico (1899). |
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Leoplod Auenbrugger (1722-1809), who developed the technique for percussing the chest for medical diagnosis, was born in Gratz, Styria, Austria. |
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Harvard Medial School was established by the Corporation of Harvard College (1782). John Warren (1778-1856), Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846), and Aaron Dexter (1750-1829) were appointed to the faculty. |
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Richard Lower (1631-1691) of Cornwell performed the first recorded human blood transfusion in England on Arthur Coga before the Royal Society (1667). |
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The Philomena Society of New York City, the first local American Society for nurses, was organized(1885). |
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English surgeons Alexander Hughes Bennett (1848-1901) and Rickman John Godlee (1849-1925) performed the first accurate localization and surgical removal of a brain tumor (1884). |
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Mary Walker (1832-1919), assistant surgeon of the Union Army in the Civil War, and the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor, was born in Oswego. New York. |
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Helen B. Taussig (1898-1986) and Alfred Blalock (1899-1964) performed the first successful surgery to oxygenate the blood of "blue babies" diagnosed with cyanotic heart disease (1944). |
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Edgar Douglas Adrian (1889-1977), physiologist who won the 1932 Nobel Prize, with Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1861-1952), in medicine and physiology for his studies of neuron function, was born in London. |
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Danish doctors performed sex-change surgery, transforming George Jorgensen, Jr. into ChristineJorgensen (1952). |
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The first artificial heart designed by Robert K. Jarvik (1946- ), replaced the failing heart of Barney Clark. The surgeon was William C. DeVries (1943- ), of the Utah Medical Center (1982). |
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The first human heart transplant was performed by Christiaan Barnard (1922- ) at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa (1967). The patient was Louis Washkansky. |
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The first closed-circuit intercity medical telecast was broadcast from Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, to a session of the American Medical Association in Washington, D.C. (1949). |
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Theodore Schwann (1810-1882), originator of the cell theory, who also demonstrated the effect of pepsin on digestion, was born in Neuss, Rhenish Prussia. |
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Canada adopted a program that required the federal government to pay fifty percent of medical costs (1966). |
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The first Christmas seals were sold in Wilmington, Delaware, to provide funds for the fight against tuberculosis (1907). |
10 Oral Exam Nobel prizes for physics, chemistry, physiology and medicine, literature, and peace were first awarded, the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death (1901). |
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Oral Exam AHEC Followup Ephraim McDowell (1771-1830) performed his first ovarectomy on a Mrs. Crawford in Danville, Kentucky (1809). McDowell developed and documented the procedure. |
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Stanford University biochemists reported the production of synthetic DNA (1967). |
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The first American pharmacopoeia, The Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America, was published in Boston (1820). |
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The first woman surgeon was admitted to theRoyal College of Surgeons, London (1911). |
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Doctors at Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide, Australia, announced the first successful use of a frozen egg for in vitro fertilization (1985). |
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Shibasaburo Kitasato (1852-1931), the bacteriologist who isolated the tetanus bacillus and discovered the bacillus that causes bubonic plague, was born n the Kumamoto prefecture in Japan. |
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Dried human blood serum was prepared for the first time, at the University of Pennsylvania (1933). |
22 Deep Oral Exam 1/2 day of School Christmas Holiday Begins
Samuel Fuller, the first doctor in the British colonies, arrived in New England (1620). |
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The first successful kidney graft was performed between twenty-year-old donor recipient identical twine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston (1954). |
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The first radioactive medication, phosphorus 32, was administered to a patient with leukemia, in Berkeley, California (1936). |
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Rat Internal Organs School Reopens Rat Internal Organs Oral Exam The "March of Dimes" campaign to fight polio was originated as an outgrowth of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Warm Springs Foundation (1938) |
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The first printed edition of the physician Avenzoar's (?1092-1162) pracical handbook for the physician, Liber Teisir, was published in Venice (1490). |
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Benjamin Rush (1745-1813), physician and politician, was born in Byberry, Pennsylvania. Rush was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. |
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Guy's Hospital opened in London (1725). This major eighteenth-century hospital was organized through the philanthropy of Thomas Guy (1624-1724). |
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The United States Court of Appeals banned DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloro-ethane) until its toxic effects on health and the environment were determined (1971). |
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Stanford University reported the isolation of the polio virus (1947). |
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Luther L. Terry (1911-1985), Surgeon General of the United States, reported that cigarette smoking was hazardous to health (1964). |
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The first x-ray photo, showing a bullet wound through the hand of a corpse, was made in the United States (1896) by Henry Louis Smith (1859-1951). |
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Geneticists succeeded in tracing the human lineage back to one common ancestor who lived approximately 200,000 years ago in Africa (1987). |
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Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), medical missonary and humanitarian, was born in Alsace. He won the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize. |
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Closed Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566), physician and botanist, was born in Tubingen, Germany. The plant genus fuchsia was named for him. |
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The cause of Legionnaires' Disease was identified as a new strain of pneumonia-causing bacteria named Legionella pneomophila (1977). |
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The United States Food and Drug Administration banned Red Dye No. 2 in foods, drugs, and cosmetics, after it was linked to cancer in laboratory animals (1976). |
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The Altoona Hospital in Altoona, Pennsylvania, was the first hospital to use social security numbers as a record keeping system (1967). |
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The first medical publication in the United States was published by Thomas Thacher (1620-1678) in Boston (1677). |
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Semester Begins The first edition of Giovanni Arcolani's (c.1400-1484) treatise on Avicenna (980-1037), the Persian physician and philosopher, was published in Ferrara, Italy (1489). |
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James Morgan Sims (1813-1883), American surgeon and gynecologist, was born in Lancaster County, South Carolina. Sims developed gynecology as a distinct specialty. |
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Researchers at Harvard reported that a single aspirin tablet every other day seemed to prevent heart attacks in healthy men (1988). |
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The first printed edition of Albucasis's (1013-1106) Cyrugia Albucasis cum cauteritis & allii instrumentis was published in Venice (1500). |
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The Canadian Supreme Court ruled that federal restrictions on abortion violated the Constitution and legalized abortion (1988). |
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The National Traffic Safety Agency issued the first set of federal standards for vehicle safety in the United States (1967). |
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The first American dental college, Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, was incorporated (1840). |
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The United States Army Nurse Corps was established as a permanent organization (1901). |
2 Geography Exam Biochemistry/Cell Lecture and Activities An infertile woman gave birth to the first baby born by means of an implanted donor embryo (1984). |
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Major William C, Gorgas (1854-1920) of the United States Army initiated a successful campaign against yellow fever in Cuba (1901). |
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The National Medical Association of China, founded by Wu Lien Teh, held its first metting in Shanghai (1916). |
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James B. Herrick (1861-1954) produced in Chicago the first electrocardiogram showing heart malfunction (1919). |
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Lydia Estes Pinkham (1819-1883), the manufacturer of the patent medicine "Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound" was born in Lynn, Massachusetts. |
9 and Activities John Franklin Enders (1897-1985), who won the 1954 Nobel Prize with Frederick C. Robbins (1916-) and Thomas Weller (1915-), for tissue culture of poliomyelitis viruses was born in West Hartford, Connecticut. |
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The first hospital in the United States, the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, opened (1752). It was founded by Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). |
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The first printed edition of Rhaze's (?850-?923) Liber ad Almonsorem, libri X was published with Johannes Mesue the Elder's (777-837) Aphorismi in Milan (1481). |
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Anton Maria Valsalva (1666-1723) who taught Giovanni Morgagni (1682-1771) and described the muscles and nerves of the human ear, was born in Imola, Italy. |
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The use of porcelain for filling teeth was described at the meeting of the Orthontographic Society of Chicago (1903). |
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The White Paper, a government report on the formation of the National Health Service in England, was published (1944). |
17 Exam Biochemistry/Cell Lecture and Activities Marshall Hall (1780-1869), the physician who discovered volitional action amd unconscious reflexes and coined the term "reflex action," was born in Basford, Nottingham, England. |