Medical Advances of World War I Era

Pasteurization Supports Germ Theory

Apr 20, 1862

Louis Pasteur First Tests Pasteurization, the Process by which Milk is Heated to Kill Bacteria Inside it

End of American Civil War

Apr 9, 1865

Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse

X-Ray Discovered

Jan 1, 1895

Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen Discovers the X-Ray

Karl Landsteiner Identifies ABO Blood Groups

Jan 1, 1900

Roger Lee Demonstates Type O Blood is the Universal Donor

Jan 1, 1912

Outbreak of World War I

Jul 28, 1914

After the assassination of Austrio-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.

Capt. Oswald Robertson Creates First Blood Banks

Jan 1, 1917

Anne Coleman Ladd Opens the "Studio for Portrait Masks" in Paris with the Support of the Red Cross

Jan 1, 1917

Term "Shell Shock" Coined

Jan 1, 1917

Term "Shell Shock" coined by British Medical Officer Charles Myers

United States Enters World War I

Apr 6, 1917

End of World War I

Nov 25, 1918

Armistice Day