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a substance that induces insensitivity to pain. also the study or practice of anesthesia.
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The Royal College of Surgeons is founded in London
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Richard C. Skinner writes the Treatise on the Human Teeth, the first dental book published in America
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German pharmacist F.W.A. Serturner isolates morphine, an opium alkaloid. It was named for Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams.
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pain killer for things such as teeth ache. broken bones etc
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The medicinal pill-making machine is invented
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Charles Bell publishes his System of Comparative Surgery.
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certain microbes are disease-causing agents. At the time, the origin of diseases such as cholera, anthrax and rabies is a mystery.
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generally the process of receiving blood or blood products into one's circulation intravenously. Transfusions are used for various medical conditions to replace lost components of the blood.
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British obstetrician James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood.
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able to hear heart rate of someone
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medication to treat malaria and babesiosis
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The Medical College of South Carolina is founded in Charleston.
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A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye is published by Dr. George Frick, the leading oculist in Baltimore
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porcelain teeth. His S.S. White Dental Manufacturing Company establishes and dominates the dental supply market throughout the 19th century.
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James Snell invents the first reclining dental chair.
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The American Board of Orthodontics, the world’s first dental specialty board, is founded.
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The first medical periodical in the South, The Southern Medical and Surgical Journal, begins publication.
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First North American cholera epidemic.
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The first medical journal in Louisiana, Journal de la Society Medicale de la Nouvelle-New Orleans is published in French.
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The American Society of Dental Surgeons, the world’s first national dental organization, is founded
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Baltimore College of Dentistry in Maryland opens with five students
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Alabama enacts the first dental practice act, regulating dentistry in the United States
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American surgeon Crawford W. Long uses ether as a general anesthetic during surgery but does not publish his results. Credit goes to dentist William Morton.
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Joseph Lister publishes Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
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Oliver Wendell Holmes publishes The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever.
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U.S. dental surgeon Horace Wells, a pioneer in the use of anesthetics, has nitrous oxide administered to himself for a tooth extrraction
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American dentist, uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic.
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American Medical Association is founded.
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an instrument for inspecting the retina and other parts of the eye.
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little hard candies that lubricated the through to keep it moist s you wouldn't cough a lot during a cold
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Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to receive a medical degree
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a needle to shoot certain liquids, antibiotics, pain killers etc into where ever it needs to go
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Robert Arthur originates the cohesive gold foil method allowing dentists to insert gold into a cavity with minimal pressure
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Twenty-six dentists meet in Niagara Falls, New York, and form the American Dental Association.
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microorganisms may cause many human and animal diseases.
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process that kills microbes in mainly food and or milk
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Sanford C. Barnum develops the rubber dam, a piece of elastic rubber fitted over a tooth by means of weights
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little drill dentist's used to drill out cavities
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antimicrobial substances that are applied to living tissue/skin to reduce the possibility of infection
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put in mouth or other places to tell the temperate of somone
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Lucy Beaman Hobbs graduates from the Ohio College of Dental Surgery, becoming the first woman to earn a dental degree
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The Harvard University Dental School, the first university-affiliated dental institution, is founded. The school calls its degree the Dentariae Medicinae Doctorae
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Dr. Robert Tanner Freeman, graduating from Harvard University Dental School, becomes the first African-American to earn a dental degree.
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The American George F. Green receives a patent for the first electric dental engine, a self-contained motor and handpiece.
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Using a galvanometer, the British scientist Richard Caton noted electrical impulses from the brains of animals, laying down the principles that would lead to the development of the electroencephalogram
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The Wilkerson chair, the first pump-type hydraulic dental chair, is introduced.
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James B. Morrison patents the first commercially manufactured foot-treadle dental engine
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Joseph Lister started to clean equipment before use in surgery.This lead to better treatment of patients and the replacement of carbonic acid with steam cleaning to kill germs in wounds,
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The collapsible metal tube revolutionizes toothpaste manufacturing and marketing. Dentifrice had been available only in liquid or powder form
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is an infection caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. It can occur in four forms: skin, inhalation, intestinal, and injection. this is the vaccine to cure it
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now called a band aid. used to cover cuts and small wounds
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The National Association of Dental Examiners is founded by the members of the dental boards of several states in order to establish uniform standards in the qualifications for dental practitioners
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Her duties include chair-side assistance, instrument cleaning, inventory, appointments, bookkeeping, and reception. Soon “Lady in Attendance"
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vaccine invented to stop rabies
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same thing as glasses but actually go in your eye. used to be made of actual glass and eye drops after
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infectious and often fatal bacterial disease of the small intestine, typically contracted from infected water supplies and causing severe vomiting and diarrhea.
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discovers antitoxins and uses them to develop tetanus and diphtheria vaccines.
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effective diphtheria antitoxin
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The Johns Hopkins University Medical School, first modern American medical school, opens in Baltimore.
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The history of chiropractic began in 1895 when Daniel David Palmer of Iowa performed the first chiropractic adjustment on a partially deaf janitor
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used to take pictures of your body through radiation to see through your skin and into your bones
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Parke-Davis Company founds first pharmaceutical research laboratory
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corsets were something that girls we to change the shape of thee hips, torso's
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First vaccine for typhoid fever. worst sickness you could get in the 1800's
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discovred vaccine for any contagious, malignant, epidemic disease, in particular the bubonic plague and the black plague
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DD Palmer continued to develop chiropractic and in 1897 established the Palmer School of Cure
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George Nuttall demonstrates that flies can spread plague bacilli.
Aspirin, a highly effective pain reliever and fever reducer -
they open shops and make bank
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Helped relieve pain. It was invented by Felix Hoffman.
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Karl Landsteiner describes blood compatibility and rejection
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"accessory food factors" are essential to health.
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discover four blood groups and develop a system of classification. Knowledge of the different blood types is crucial to performing safe blood transfusions
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Alvin Strock inserts the first Vitallium dental screw implant.
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The Society of Clinical Surgery is Formed
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measures heart rate while in the hospital
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Charles Land devises the porcelain jacket crown.
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National Tuberculosis Association (now American Lung Association) is founded to encourage prevention and cure of tuberculosis.
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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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Alfred Einhorn, a German chemist, formulates the local anesthetic procain, later marketed under the trade name Novocain.
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The Debut of Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, a Scientific Journal by and for Surgeons
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The American Medical Association sets up the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry to decide which propriety products may be allowed to advertise in its publications, including JAMA.
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cornea is replaced by the cornea from the eye of a human cadaver
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First successful human blood transfusion using Landsteiner's ABO blood typing technique
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Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins suggests the existence of vitamins and concludes they are essential to health. Receives the 1929 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
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von Wasserman introduces diagnostic test for syphilis
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Clemens Von Pirquet introduces skin test for TB.
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Greene Vardiman Black, the leading reformer and educator of American dentistry, publishes his monumental two-volume treatise Operative Dentistry
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Oskar Hagger, a Swiss chemist, develops the first system of bonding acrylic resin to dentin.
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William Taggart invents a “lost wax” casting machine, allowing dentists to make precision cast fillings.
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National Committee for Mental Hygiene founded to promote prevention and cure of mental diseases.
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The first formal training program for dental nurses is established at the Ohio College of Dental Surgery by Cyrus M. Wright
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Dr. Hans Christian Jacobaeus, a Swedish internist, performed the first laparoscopy on a human. He punctured the abdominal walls of 17 patients, using cocaine as a local anesthetic, and removed fluid from their abdomens
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German researcher Paul Erhlich tests salversan, first treatment effective against syphilis; regarded as birth of modern chemotherapy.
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The U.S. Army Dental Corps is established as the first armed services dental corps in the U.S. The Navy institutes its Dental Corps in 1912.
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a protective mask used to cover a person's face as a defense against poisonous gas.
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Elmer V. McCollum and associates isolate Vitamin A.
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A motion was made and passed that each Fellow should pledge not to split fees
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American Society for the Control of Cancer, later renamed the American Cancer Society, is founded.
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Requirements for Fellowship Lead to 60 Percent Rejection Rate.
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dental hygienist becomes known as the Father of Dental Hygiene.
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Lister's Gavel Presented by Royal College of Surgeons
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The first state law licensing chiropractors was passed in 1913
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At a time when cancer was thought by the public and many physicians to be contagious and incurable, the College collaborated with the American Society for the Control of Cancer
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Polio epidemics break out in New York and Boston; polio outbreaks continue sporadically in summers for decades to come.
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Irene Newman receives the world’s first dental hygiene license in Connecticut.
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An influenza pandemic kills 15 million people worldwide, 600,000 of them in the United States
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The nylon toothbrush, the first made with synthetic bristles, appears on the market.
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National Institute of Dental Research and initiating federal funding for dental research. Dr. H. Trendley Dean is appointed its first director
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helps keep cuts or sores from infection.
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water fluoridation era begins when the cities of Newburgh, New York, and Grand Rapids, Michigan, add sodium fluoride to their public water systems.
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not enough circulation in your blood, trouble with iron
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First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough).
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Fedrick Banting and Charles Best discover insulin. used for treating diabetes
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Association for the Prevention and Relief of Heart Disease, later renamed the American Heart Association, is founded.
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The first fluoride toothpastes are marketed.
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Phenobarbital is a substance discovred in 1911. In 1920, it is first used to cases od epilepsy.
