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In most of the American colonies, medicine was rudimentary for the first few generations, as few upper-class British physicians emigrated to the colonies. The first medical society was organized in Boston in 1735.
Lysol was created in 1889 by Gustav Raupenstrauch. The disinfectant’s early formula included cresol which was reported to cause inflammation, burning, and death. In the early 1920s, the company that made the disinfectant, Lehn & Fink, aggressively marketed the product to American wives.
List of drugs by year of discovery. The following is a table of drugs organized by their year of discovery. Naturally occurring chemicals in plants, including alkaloids, have been used since pre-history. In the modern era, plant-based drugs have been isolated, purified and synthesised anew. Synthesis of drugs has led to novel drugs, including ...
1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree in the United States. 1850 – Female Medical College of Pennsylvania (later Woman's Medical College), the first medical college in the world to grant degrees to women, is founded in Philadelphia. [99]
500 BC Alcmaeon of Croton distinguished veins from arteries. 460 BC Birth of Hippocrates, the Greek father of medicine begins the scientific study of medicine and prescribes a form of aspirin. 300 BC Diocles wrote the first known anatomy book. 280 BC Herophilus studies the nervous system.
In 1765, john Morgan and William Shippen of Philadelphia, both graduates of Edinburgh, founded the first medical school in the country, now part of the University of Pennsylvania. Additional medical schools were founded at Kings College (now Columbia University) in 1768 and at Harvard in 1783.
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History of medicine, the development of the prevention and treatment of disease from prehistoric times to the 21st century. Learn about medicine and surgery before 1800, the rise of scientific medicine in the 19th century, and developments in the 20th and 21st centuries.
