Timeline History |
Deadly Disease Timeline 1911 - 1920 |
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1911 |
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1913 | Allen, after three years of diabetes study, publishes Studies Concerning Glycosuria and Diabetes, a book which is significant for the revolution in diabetes therapy that developed from it. | |||||||||
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1918 | Sir Edward Mellanby induces rickets in dogs and then cures the disease by feeding the animals cod-liver oil. | |||||||||
1919 | K. Huldschinsky cures children of rickets using artificially
produced ultraviolet light. Allen establishes the first treatment clinic in the USA, the Physiatric Institute in New Jersey, to treat patients with diabetes, high blood pressure and Bright's disease; wealthy and desperate patients flock to it. |
Frederick Allen publishes Total Dietary Regulation in
the Treatment of Diabetes, citing exhaustive case records of 76 of the 100
diabetes patients he observed, becomes the director of diabetes research
at the Rockefeller Institute. |
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1920 | Rickets: Harry Goldblatt and Katherine Soames, H. Steenbock and A. Black, and Alfred Hess and Mildred Weinstock independently discover that irradiating certain foodstuffs with ultraviolet light renders those foods antirachitic. | |||||||||
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Deadly Disease History Timeline 1901 - 1910 |
Deadly Disease History Timeline 1921 - 1930 |
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