 | | | | Today In Health History Headlines | | | The pituitary, which is located at the base of the brain, is considered the master gland because it controls the other endocrine glands and produces a number of hormones that stimulate growth, metabolic or sexual functions.
An Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel introduced the world to genetics through his experiments on crossbreeding pea plants.
An American Legion Convention beginning on this date in 1976 was the focal point for the hunt for a deadly disease that killed 29 of the conventioneers.
One of the first educators to write widely used textbooks on psychology was Charles Hubbard Jedd, a graduate of Wesleyan University who received his doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Leipzig in Germany in 1896.
In the 1940s, terrified parents kept their children close to home, particularly in the summer when they believed that public swimming pools were breeding grounds for polio.
The first public health service in the United States was established by Congress on this date in 1798.
In the early 1980s, doctors at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine discovered that an experimental drug called acyclovir could treat cold sores and genital lesions caused by the herpes simplex virus.
On this date in 1883, the first issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association was published.
On this date in 1985, H. Harlan Stone, M.D., devised a unique method for keeping patients in stitches.
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