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Deadly Disease Timeline 1921 - 1930



Year disease (findings) / outbreaks scientific reasearch/cure Medicines Articles
1921     First vaccine for diphtheria Dr. Banting presents a paper entitled 'The Beneficial Influences of Certain Pancreatic Extracts on Pancreatic Diabetes', summarizing his work to this point at a session of the American Physiological Society at Yale University. Among the attendees are Allen and Joslin. Little praise or congratulation is received.
         
1922   Rickets : Elmer V. McCollum destroys vitamin A in cod liver oil and shows that the separate antirachitic substance remains. He calls the newly identified substance "vitamin D."        
1923   The first successful vaccine for diphtheria was developed in 1923        
1924          
1925          
1926   First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough)        
1927   Rickets : Adolf Windaus, O. Rosenheim, and T. A. Webster deduce that ergosterol is the likely parent substance of vitamin D in food. First vaccine for tuberculosis        
1928          
1929          
1930          
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