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  1. Killer Disease Fighter
    date September, 1937 to 1937map Charlottesville, Virginiatags Medicine, Medicine/Health

    "But to realize that six human beings, all of them my patients, one of them my best friend, are dead because they took medicine that I prescribed for them innocently… well, that realization has given me such days and nights of mental and spiritual agony as I did not believe a human being could undergo and survive.” In a letter written by Dr. A.S. Calhoun in 1937 he describes his feelings toward...

  2. Chemicals in the Cure-All Medicines
    date 1800map Essex, Massachusettstags Medicine, Medicine/Health

    During the 1800s numerous patent medicines were on the market to “treat” a wide range of diseases and symptoms. There were treatments for excess fat, curing female ailments, anti-pain meds and treating the common cold. Someone even made a pill for pale people. These patent medicines came in all forms; extracts, elixirs, pills, wafers, etc. The most popular of these patent medicines was Lydia Pinkham’s...

  3. Meharry Medical College-Vanderbilt University Medical Center Alliance
    date January 1, 1999map Davidson, Tennesseetags Medicine, Hospital, Space

    Meharry Medical College was founded in 1876 and was the first medical school in the South for African-Americans. It was one of only two African-American medical schools to meet the academic standards of the Flexner Report. It offers degrees in dentistry, medicine, and public health.[1]   In fall 1997, the president of Meharry went to the vice chancellor for health affairs at Vanderbilt University...

  4. Autopsy Dictates Asylum Goals: New Traditions from Unique Events
    date July 8, 1882map Washington City, District of Columbiatags Autopsy, mental health, Space, Hospital, Medicine

    After Dr. William W. Godding, the 2nd superintendent of Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, DC, witnessed the autopsy of Charles Guiteau, his viewpoint on the pathology of the insane was solidified and, therefore, resulted in the drastic alteration of the mission, practices, and clinical direction of Saint Elizabeth’s. The hospital was established by an act of Congress in 1852 and opened...

  5. The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 and its Deinstitutionalizing Effect on Saint Elizabeth's Hospital
    date October 31, 1963map Dist Columbia, District of Columbiatags Medicine, Hospital, Space, Health, Government, Law

    Due to a growing need for mental health services, Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital was built by the United States Congress as a result of the Civil and Diplomatic Appropriation Act of 1852. The Institution opened in Washington, DC in 1855 as the “Government Hospital for the Insane”. A prominent leader in the mental health field, Dorthea Dix, lobbied for the construction of the facility and founded...

  6. Modernization of the NIH Clinical Center: Groundbreaking of the Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center
    date November 4, 1997map Montgomery, Marylandtags Medicine, Hospital, Space

    The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, located in Bethesda, MD, is a hospital devoted entirely to clinical research and is one of the centers of the National Institutes of Health. Construction for the original center, the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, began in 1948 and the center opened in 1953. On November 4, 1997, a groundbreaking ceremony was held in honor of the new clinical...

  7. Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment Examined by HEW
    date July 26, 1972map Madison, Illinoistags African-Americans, Health/Death, Medicine, Tuskegee, Syphilis, Study

    On July 26, 1972 The Alton Evening Telegraph, a newspaper in Alton, Illinois, released an article discussing The Department of Health Education and Welfare's investigation of the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment. Although the experiment was conducted in Alabama, the news was a national story. Jean Heller, the author of the article, found this study so disturbing that she decided to report on it. The experiment’s...

  8. Enter: The Leading Pain Killer
    date March 6, 1899map Europe, Outside UStags Medicine/Health, Medicine

    After years of research, in 1899 German company, Friedrich Bayer & Co. began manufacturing Aspirin for release into the market as a fever reducer and pain reliever; physicians could then prescribe Aspirin to their patients in one-gram doses. Previous to this tweaked product, the most common medicine of its function was Salicylic Acid, which is contracted from Willow Tree bark, having medicinal roots...

  9. Developing A Vaccination
    date February 16, 1808map Charleston, South Carolinatags vaccine, Medicine

    In a letter dated February 16, 1808, David Ramsay, a Charleston physician, discussed the grant money that was given to Dr. Edward Jenner for research on vaccinations.  Ramsay outlined why the money was funded to Dr. Jenner and what had led to the grant. He wrote to tell how a committee of physicians had met in England to discuss the efficacy of the smallpox vaccine. According to Ramsay, “the report...

  10. A Reformer Notes How the Medical Profession is Detrimental to the Health of Americans of the 1800s.
    date January 1, 1857 to December 31, 1857map SOMERSET, New Jerseytags Medicine, Public Health, 1800s

    Ironically detrimental to the health of Americans during the 1800s was the medicinal trade itself; “the medical profession in America [bore] the evils of haste and irregularity incident to so many of its institutions. It [was] a country of many and violent diseases” (Nichols, 363). Firstly, becoming a doctor was simple enough to be achieved by virtually anyone. Attaining a certificate as a Medicinae...

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