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  • Base sledge

    Base sledge

    One of the first devices for the preparation of such cuts was invented in 1770 by George Adams, Jr. and further developed by Alexander Cummings. The device was hand operated, and the sample held in a cylinder and sections created from the top of the sample using a hand crank.
  • Pathology  book

    Pathology book

    Gross's7 Elements of Pathological Anatomy, first published in 1839, has been considered by some as the first textbook of pathology in America.
  • Bone marrow

    Bone marrow

    A microscopic examination of bone tissue in a blood disorder was done in 1846 by John Dalrymple (1804–1852) of Dublin on a patient with multiple myeloma (Sebastian, 1999).
  • discovered cells

    discovered cells

    In the 19th century, cell theory advanced. Theodore Schwann (1810–1882) discovered cells in all human tissue.
  • bone marrow

    bone marrow

    The device is named for its inventor Khosrow Jamshidi who is an Iranian physician. A microscopic examination of bone tissue in a blood disorder was done in 1846 by John Dalrymple (1804–1852) of Dublin on a patient with multiple myeloma (Sebastian, 1999).
  • Syringes

    Syringes

    The first devices recognizable as hypodermic syringes were independently invented virtually simultaneously in 1853 by Scottish physician Alexander Wood and French surgeon Charles Gabriel Pravaz.
  • Father of pathology

    Father of pathology

    Rudolph Virchow , He Developed his own method when doing autopsies. This technique is still used today
  • Microtome

    Microtome

    In 1865 His invented the microtome, a mechanical device used to slice thin tissue sections for microscopic examination.
  • George Hayem

    George Hayem

    Georges Hayem developed his own hemocytometer chamber in 1875
  • First Medical School

    First Medical School

    Johns Hopkins Medical School one may learn that a small group of men, including President Gilman, Remsen and Newell Martin, met at intervals to plan the organization of the future medical school. Dr. Welch was appointed Professor of Pathology in 1884, and was present at the meeting on Mary 21st of that year when Dr. Councilman was appointed associate in pathology
  • Biological lab

    Biological lab

    Welch then spent some time in Europe and work in pathology was begun in the biological laboratory in Little Ross Street in 1885.
  • Hospital

    Hospital

    . The pathological laboratory begun on the corner of the hospital grounds as the morgue of the future hospital was completed in 1886
  • opening of hospital

    opening of hospital

    first building of the hospital group to be thus completed, the whole hospital being opened in 1889.
  • Equipment

    Equipment

    In 1923, a grant was obtained from the Rockefeller Foundation, of which $5000 was devoted to the purchase of new equipment for the laboratory.
  • pathology

    pathology

    forensic pathology was first recognized in the USA by the in 1959.