 | | | | Today In Health History Headlines | | | On this date in 1569, Huguenot physician William Chamberlen, the inventor of obstetrical forceps, was forced to emigrate to England from France.
More and more is written about the 16th century prophecies of French astrologer Nostradamus.
In April 1897, Eastman Kodak created a special film 3 feet by 6 feet that was used for the first radiograph of an entire body.
The Army and Navy General Hospital in Hot Springs, Ark., was the first combined general hospital in the nation for both army and navy patients.
The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., can trace its history to a tornado that swept through the state in 1883.
On this date in 1992, a Kentucky medical examiner publicly announced that President Zachary Taylor had indeed died of natural causes, and not of arsenic poisoning.
Though Thomas Sydenham is considered the father of modern medicine, the "English Hippocrates" scorned school and received an erratic education.
In the years after World War II, the U.S. government became more involved in medical research.
Sex was a hot topic after Alfred Charles Kinsey's "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male," or the "Kinsey Report" as it came to be known, was published in 1948.
William McDougall, psychologist and physician, was also an anthropologist.
As a New York Yankee, Henry Louis Gehrig was named the American League's most valuable player in 1927, 1931, 1934 and 1936.
In 1921, it was discovered that 75 percent of all infants in New York had rickets, a disease that causes bone deformities.
Susan La Flesche Picotte, who was the daughter of Joseph "Iron Eye" La Flesche, an Omaha tribe chief, graduated at the top of her class from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1889.
On this date in 1921, the first class of the Army School of Nursing graduated.
Nursing became a respectable field of study mainly because of the efforts of Florence Nightingale.
On this date in 1989, Canadian track star Ben Johnson admitted for the first time that he was a steroid user.
On this date in 1985, 31-year-old Karen Ann Quinlan, often called the first poster child for the modern right-to-die movement, died in a Morris Plains, N.J., nursing home.
The first law to regulate the practice of medicine in the American Colonies was enacted on this date in 1760.
On June 9, 1822, Charles Graham received the first patent for false teeth.
The first leper hospital in the United States was the Louisiana Leper Home in Carville, Louisiana, founded in 1894 by an act of the Louisiana State legislature.
Paralyzed by cerebral palsy, Christy Brown was able to move only his left foot.
On this date in 1970, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug L-Dopa, or levodopa.
When singers, actors and newscasters are diagnosed with a "disabled voice," they seek the help of a laryngologist, who treats disorders and diseases of the larynx.
Louis Pasteur was a French microbiologist and chemist who made invaluable contributions to the fields of science, industry and medicine.
In 1964, the U.S. Surgeon General released its landmark findings on smoking and health in a report that inexorably linked smoking tobacco and poor health.
On this date in 1935, the nation's first sanatorium for drug addicts received its first patients.
Biologist Stanley Prusiner performed groundbreaking research on a new class of germ that slowly attacks the brain.
The first hospital in the United States was built in the City of Brotherly Love, before the American Revolution.
Dr. Joseph Kerwin made the longest journey to see a patient when he became the first doctor to practice in space.
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