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Deadly Disease Timeline 1911 - 1920



Year disease (findings) / outbreaks scientific reasearch/cure Medicines Articles
1911                   China Cholera 1911
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1912          
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.      
1914          
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1917          
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.
       
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.        
Year disease (findings) / outbreaks scientific reasearch/cure


Deadly Disease History Timeline 1901 - 1910

Deadly Disease History Timeline 1921 - 1930

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