 | | | | Today In Health History Headlines | | | One of the first educators to write widely used textbooks on psychology was Charles Hubbard Jedd, a graduate of Wesleyan University who received his doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Leipzig in Germany in 1896.
In the 1940s, terrified parents kept their children close to home, particularly in the summer when they believed that public swimming pools were breeding grounds for polio.
The first public health service in the United States was established by Congress on this date in 1798.
In the early 1980s, doctors at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine discovered that an experimental drug called acyclovir could treat cold sores and genital lesions caused by the herpes simplex virus.
On this date in 1883, the first issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association was published.
On this date in 1985, H. Harlan Stone, M.D., devised a unique method for keeping patients in stitches.
As a young man in Germany, Abraham Jacobi, M.D., spent a brief time in prison because of his participation in the Revolution of 1848.
On July 9, 1893, Daniel Hale Williams, pioneering African-American surgeon, repaired the lacerated pericardium (the membrane that encloses the heart) of a Chicago stab-wound victim.
Sulfites are used to control bacteria and to prevent discoloration from oxidation in some fresh vegetables and fruit.
Italian physician Camillo Golgi was the first researcher to discover that the three types of malaria are caused by protozoan organisms.
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