Timeline History |
Medical History Timeline 1901 - 1910 |
| Year | Medical Discovery / Inventions | medical articles / thesis |
Famous Births/Deaths | Medical Equipments | Medical Events | |||||
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| 1901 | Karl Landsteiner discovers the existence of different human blood types | Major reorganization of American Medical Association greatly
strengthens its professional and political influence. Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research opens in New York City. |
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| 1902 | ||||||||||
| 1903 | electrocardiograph invented by Willem Einthoven | |||||||||
| 1904 | English physicians William Maddock Bayliss and Ernest H. Starling propose that hormones act as chemical messengers through which organs regulate bodily functions. | National Tuberculosis Association (now American Lung Association)
is founded to encourage prevention and cure of tuberculosis. National Federation of Advertising Clubs of America is founded, and takes as one of its objectives discouraging fraudulent advertising; group is subsequently renamed Associated Advertising Clubs of America, and later "of the World". |
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| 1905 | ||||||||||
| 1906 | German researcher August von Wasserman introduces diagnostic
test for syphilis. Frederick Hopkins suggests the existence of vitamins and suggests that a lack of vitamins causes scurvy and rickets |
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins suggests the existence of vitamins and concludes they are essential to health. | ||||||||
| 1907 | Clemens Von Pirquet introduces skin test for TB. Paul Ehrlich develops a chemotherapeutic cure for sleeping sickness |
First successful human blood transfusion using Landsteiner's ABO blood typing technique | ||||||||
| 1908 | Victor Horsley and R. Clarke invents the stereotactic method | |||||||||
| 1909 | National Committee for Mental Hygiene founded to promote prevention and cure of mental diseases. | |||||||||
| 1910 | Death of Elizabeth Blackwell (first woman to practice modern medicine ) | |||||||||
| Year | Medical Discovery / Inventions | medical articles / thesis |
Famous Births/Deaths | Medical Equipments | Medical Events |
Medical History Timeline Upto 1900 |
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