Deadly Disease Timeline 1921 - 1930 |
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1921 |
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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.
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1922 |
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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." |
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1923 |
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The first successful vaccine for diphtheria was developed
in 1923 |
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1924 |
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1925 |
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1926 |
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First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough) |
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1927 |
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Rickets : Adolf Windaus, O. Rosenheim, and T. A. Webster
deduce that ergosterol is the likely parent substance of vitamin D in food.
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First vaccine for tuberculosis |
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1928 |
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1929 |
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