 | | | | Today In Health History Headlines | | | On July 9, 1893, Daniel Hale Williams, pioneering African-American surgeon, repaired the lacerated pericardium (the membrane that encloses the heart) of a Chicago stab-wound victim.
Sulfites are used to control bacteria and to prevent discoloration from oxidation in some fresh vegetables and fruit.
Italian physician Camillo Golgi was the first researcher to discover that the three types of malaria are caused by protozoan organisms.
Two-time Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie died on this date in 1934.
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 hospital was founded on this date in 1882.
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 poison.
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