 | | | | Today In Health History Headlines | | | On this date in 1949, two doctors saw something new.
Norman E. Shumway performed the world's third human heart transplant, and the first on U.S. soil, on this date in 1968.
Physiologist Joseph Erlanger's research on the nervous tissue of frogs led to an increased knowledge of the nature of nerve impulses.
After the first human heart transplant in late 1967 by South African cardiac surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard, 1968 saw a flurry of such operations at several medical centers around the world.
Physiology, the branch of biology that studies how organisms live and function, was the subject of a national society formed late in the 19th century to promote scientific research.
After the Civil War, black doctors were needed to tend to the many freed slaves in the city of Nashville, Tenn.
On this date in 1750, two doctors who lived in Jamaica shot each other dead in a duel.
It has often been said that the Civil War hastened the development of modern medicine in the United States, mainly because conditions were so unsanitary and disease such a problem during that conflict.
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