-
The American Medical Association is founded.
-
Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first American women to earn a medical degree. She studied obstetrics and gynecology at the Geneva Medical College in New York.
-
Louis Patsuer realizes that microorganisms such as bacteria and virus are responsible for many human and animal illnesses. He then proceeds to discover the bacteria and viruses responsible for for different diseases such as cholera and scurvies.
-
Claude Bernard thinks that more practice with experimental medicine will maximize the survival rate for patients.
-
Joseph Lister noticecd that disinfection tended to reduce post - operative infection. His article in the newspaper becomes a revolutionary article. After his article was published, deaths caused by infection went from 60% of deaths to 4%.
-
The sale of certain drugs was restricted by law. These drugs included heroin and marijuana. now, they were only aloud to be used for severe medical cases.
-
The first version of the cholera vaccine is created. Before then, there were outbreaks of cholera very often in Canada, and this vaccine solved that re - ocurring problem.
-
Robert Koch isolates the microorganism which causes tuberculosis, which was the leading cause of death at the time.
-
Louis Pasteur developed the first vaccine for rabies.
-
Robert Koch figures out what microorganism is responsible for cholera and isolates it. By doing this, he also figured out cholera is a bacterial infection.
