19th century Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Medicine=== [[File:Robert Koch.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Robert Koch]] discovered the [[tuberculosis]] bacilli. The disease killed an estimated 25 percent of the adult population of Europe during the 19th century.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cdc.gov/TB/pubs/mdrtb/default.htm |title=Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis |publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090421174847/http://www.cdc.gov/tb/pubs/mdrtb/default.htm |archive-date=April 21, 2009|date=2018-12-31 }}</ref>]] * [[1804]]: [[Morphine]] first isolated. * [[1842]]: [[Anesthesia]] used for the first time. * [[1847]]: [[Chloroform]] invented for the first time, given to [[Queen Victoria]] at the birth of her eighth child, [[Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany|Prince Leopold]] in [[1853]] * [[1855]]: [[Cocaine]] is isolated by [[Friedrich Gaedcke]]. * [[1885]]: [[Louis Pasteur]] creates the first successful [[vaccine]] against rabies for a young boy who had been bitten 14 times by a rabid dog. * [[1889]]: [[Aspirin]] patented. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page