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1837 Germany is the first to have Kindergarten (and many other progressive innovations)
1837 John Deere and Leonard Andrus began manufacturing steel plows
1837 Practical threshing machine patented
1838 Thousands of native Americans in the East are forced to move West ... many dying on the way on what is known as "The Trial of Tears"
1839 First bicycle built by Scotsman Kirkpatrick Macmillan
1839 Charles Goodyear develops vulcanization process for making rubber
1839 The Opium Wars between Britain and China Hong Kong becomes British
1840's The growing use of factory-made agricultural machinery increased farmers' need for cash and encouraged commercial farming. Small town banks grow to lend money to farmers.
1840 The first Pig War that I know about; click here to read more about the Pig War of 1840, the Pig War of 1859 and the Pig War of 1906
1841 James Ross explores the Antartic and discovers the Ross Sea
1842 First grain elevator, Buffalo, NY
1842 The first surgical anesthetic use of ether is credited to Dr. Crawford Williamson Long, MD, age 27, of Jefferson, Georgia. On March 30, 1842, he removed one of the two tumors from the neck of Mr. James Venable under ether anesthesia. Apparently, he had used ether for minor surgery as early as 1841, and had originally learned about ether during "ether frolics" while in medical school at the University of Pennsylvania.
1843 Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia first introduced into the U.S.
1843 SS Great Britain first propeller driven ship to cross the Atlantic
1844 Dr. Horace Wells, American dentist, uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic. He orginally gets historical credit for being the first to do this because Dr Long in 1842 didn't publish his results as quickly.
1844 Morse's telegraph used for the first time from Baltimore to Washington DC
1845 The Hypodermic syringe was invented in the mid nineteenth century. In 1845 Francis Rynd, an Irish physician, developed the hypodermic needle. Six years later Tabourin, a French veterinarian, made various improvements to the syringe. The invention of the hypodermic syringe, however, is largely attributed to Alexander Wood, a Scottish physician from Edinburgh.
The hypodermic syringe significantly added to the tools available to the veterinary surgeon, it's earliest use was for the injection of morphine, used as an anaesthetic in surgery.
The US - Mexican War
1846
Famine in Ireland due to potato crop failure. Huge numbers of immigrants arrive in the United States
1847 The Mormons settle Salt Lake City
1847 US Troops occupy Mexico City
1847 British Factory Act limits work day for women and children to 10 hours
1847 Ignaz Semmelweis discovers how to prevent the transmission of puerperal fever
1848 Waldo Hanchett patented the dental chair.
1848 Marx and Engels: Communist Manifesto
1848 First Women's Rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY
1848 Mexico cedes Texas, California, New Mexico, and Arizona to USA and soon after the California Gold Rush commences
1849 Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York
1848 Mixed chemical fertilizers sold commercially
This page is a simple timeline of major historical events, things of interest, and anything of import to veterinary medicine in the early 1800's.
Cancer; Masses, Lumps and Bumps. Surgical Treatment of Masses
Cats: Fun or interesting stuff about cats and a discussion about the diseases common in our feline companions to include Leukemia, Feline AIDS, & Cat Scratch Fever.
Discussion about problems related to the reproductive tract such as uterine infections, False Pregnancy, lack of milk, Infection of the mammary glands and trouble giving birth. But also fun stuff like new born care. Aso about undescended testicles.
Skeletal-Muscular Problems Arthritis, Fractures, ACL, Ligament Injuries, Disc Disease, Pannus, and many other problems of the bones, muscles, tendons, and ligaments
Surgery: Spays, Castrations, Testicle Recipes, Soft Tissue Surgery, Hard Tissue Surgery (Bones), C- Sections, Declawing, Tumor Removal and Cancer Surgery
1800 Sir Humphry Davy discovers the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide
1803 US purchases the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon mostly because French troops are decimated by Yellow Fever in Haiti
Here's a summary of the story; Late in 1801, Napoleon sent his brother-in-law, General Victor-Emmanuel LeClerc and 20,000 troops to seize the entire island and put an end to the slave turned rebel leader of the island, known as the "pretender", L'Ouverture.
LeClerc and his troops landed at Cap Francais on 29 January 1802. The French forces under LeClerc were the most capable the rebels had yet faced. And after a few short, bloody battles, the French essentially controlled the island. LeClerc was certain that total victory would soon be complete.
But LeClerc was troubled because many of his soldiers were becoming sick with a high fever. He expressed his concern to Napoleon, writing, "I have 600 men on my sick list." A week later, he noted, "I have already 1,200 in hospital." . It would only get worse. In late March, LeClerc was still fighting rebel forces. And in April the rains came, and with the rains came yellow fever.
Acutal compass from the Lewis & Clark Expedition
1808 US prohibits importation of Slaves
1809: Scottish anatomist Allan Burns demonstrates the association of high blood pressure with angina (chest pain) and sudden death due to heart attacks (which had previously been attributed to "acts of God")
The demonstration is still valid today: put a tourniquet on your bicep and then exercise the arm. It won't be long until extreme fatigue and pain sets in and the arm goes limp. Remove the tourniquet and soon all is well. This mimics what happens to the heart if coronary arteries (arteries supplying the heart with blood and nutrients) are restricted due to clogging (the most common form of severe heart disease today)
1810-1815 US declares war against Britain over several grievences and control of Canada ... war ends in a stalemate
Meanwhile all of Europe and Russia are fighting the Napoleonic Wars and much of South America is at War gaining independence from Spain (which had been drastically weakened by the Napoleon)
1812 Courties discovers iodine
1814 first gas street lights in London
1816: French physician Rene Laennec devises the stethoscope which magnifies the cardiac sounds allowing us to detect murmers and valvular diseases. Midwifes were using something similar to a stethoscope to listen for the presence of a fetal heart beat, so I'm reluctant to give Dr Laennec too much credit for his "invention", but the interesting thing about the stethoscope is that he apparently devised it to keep from putting his ear up against the bosom of his female patients, which he thought improper! (No wonder it took so long to invent the thing)
Note: the above story about Dr Rene Laennec may not be 100% accurate. Other related stories indicate that the good doctor may have been telling a white lie to be polite; maybe he was a fussy sort of person and didn't want to get too close to patients who stunk. Or maybe he had an inkling that physicians that got too close to sick patients might also get the disease. And maybe he shouldn't get too much credit at all; midwives had been using a similar cone device for centuries to listen to fetal heartbeats
1816 major economic hardship in England leads to mass immigration to Canada and The United States
1818 Savannah the first steam ship to cross the Atlantic
1818 James Blundell performs the first successful transfusion of human blood
1819 US purchases Florida from Spain
1819 U.S. food canning industry established
1824: The first Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was formed (SPCA) in England.
1825 Erie Canal completed
1829 Slavery abolished in Mexico
1831
1832 Chloroform invented
1831 Great Cholera epidemic spreads from Russia to Europe
1833 Abolition of Slavery in British Empire
1833 Hog cholera first reported in the U.S.
This one disease will play a major role in the history of U.S. veterinary medicine.
1834 McCormick reaper patented These machines and other large pieces of farm machinery led to a much higher demand for horses and mules. Also, about this time farmers started to rely on bank loans for purchasing equipment, seed, and so forth.
1834 John Lane began to manufacture plows faced with steel saw blades
1836 Texas becomes a Republic independent from Mexico
The Erie Canal, (pictured above in 1838) opened in 1825 and is often mentioned as one of the first major engineering undertakings of our fledging country. But there were several major canals built in South Carolina long before.
My ancestor and great artic explorer
Sir James Clark Ross
determines position of magnetic North Pole and later discovers the Ross Sea in Antartica
To include Femoral Head Removal, Hip Dysplasia, Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries, Panosteitis, Radiographic Demonstrations, Disc Disease, and Bone Surgery
Cardiology Heart disease in Cats, Cardiac Hypertrophy, Valvular disease, Cardiac Insufficiency, Congestive Heart Failure, Heartworm Disease, and a little history about the milestones in treating heart disease
Cats: general information page and directory of diseases and problems specific to cats including vaccine recommendations, leukemia, feline viral infections, feline upper respiratory disease and cats that just aren't feeling well.
Hormone Diseases: Diabetes, Thyroid Disease, Cushing's Disease or Hypercortisolism, Addison's disease or Hypocortisolism, Pancreatitis, obesity as a disease
Intestinal problems: diarrhea, constipation, torsion, indigestion, and gas. Also pancreatitis, vomiting, esophagitis, colitis, parvo and other types of dysentery
Metabolic Diseases: Diabetes, Thyroid Disease, Cushing's Disease or Hypercortisolism, Addison's disease or Hypocortisolism, Pancreatitis, obesity as a disease
Skeletal-Muscular Problems Arthritis, Fractures, ACL, Ligament Injuries, Disc Disease, Pannus, and many other problems of the bones, muscles, tendons, and ligaments
Surgery: Spays, Castrations, Testicle Recipes, Soft Tissue Surgery, Hard Tissue Surgery (Bones), C- Sections, Declawing, Tumor Removal and Cancer Surgery
Includes information about feline and canine heat or estrus, breeding, C-Sections, pyometra or Infected Uterus, dystocia, no milk, mastitis, & brucellosis
Also newborn care, undescended testicles, and alternative to spaying and castration
