The Life and Times of
Lillie Belle Adams

1890's

1894 - 1895 First Sino-Japanese War

Hershey bars & Sen-Sen introduced

1895 - 1896 First Italo-Abyssinian War

1895 Diptheria vaccination program begins. Over the period lasting until 1907, 63,249 cases of diptheria were treated with anti-toxin. Over 8,900 died, giving a fatality rate of 14%. Over the same period, 11,716 cases were not treated with anti-toxin, of which 703 died, giving a fatality rate of 6%.

Peanut butter & Salisbury steak introduced

Chop suey & oatmeal cookies introduced

1897 AMA formally incorporated, paying $3 fee to State of Illinois.

Chloride of lime first used to sterilize drinking water.

First Inauguration of President William McKinley 1897

Jell-O & 1000 Island dressing & cotton candy & Melba toast & tangelos introduced

1898 Marie Curie discovers radium.

1898 Spanish-American War

J.R. Ewald, professor of physicology at Strassbourg University in Germany experiments using brain electrode implants.

Pepsi & Texas sweet onions & jelly beans & candy corn introduced

Birth

Lillie Belle Adams born on March 25, 1899

1899 - 1902 Boer War in South Africa

1900's

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AMA began to achieve goal of replacing existing medical system with allopathy (system that treats diseases with drugs).

Cancer causes 4% of deaths in the United States. Deaths from measles were 13 per 100,000.

U.S. has 8,000 registered automobiles by 1900

2

1901 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research founded.

Peanut butter & jelly introduced

Second Inauguration of President William McKinley 1901

3

Lillie Belle Adams died on July 15, 1902

American Automobile Association (AAA) is founded in 1902 and begins issuing maps to its members

Karo syrup introduced

Nabisco's Animal Crackers introduced

4

Canned tuna introduced

Pope St. Pius X

5

1904 Eugenics (the study of the hereditary improvement of the human race by controlled selective breeding) established as a course at University College in London.

Banana splits & Ovaltine introduced

Rand McNally becomes one of the first commercial map publishers to produce road maps in 1904 - some were picture maps showing identifiable landmarks along the roadways

6

1905 Food and Drug Act passed in the United States.

1905 Russo-Japanese War

Inauguration of President Theodore Roosevelt 1905

New York pizza introduced

7

1906 First Pure Food and Drug law in the United States passed.

Investigations into the content of Coca-Cola are halted by the US Secretary of Agriculture.

Kellogg's Corn Flakes introduced

8

1907 Bureau of Chemistry empowered by Congress to police quality of US food.

9

Model T Ford rolls off the production line and first concrete highway built in 1908

10

1909 Rockefeller Sanitary Commission established. Beginning of Rockefeller Foundation.

Inauguration of President William H. Taft 1909

Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) introduced

1910's

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Almost one million cars are registered in U.S. by 1910

Dr.James Douglas founds the National Radium Institute for treatments.

First TB Sanitarium opened. TB death rate 180 per100,000.

Japan acquires a source of cheap and abundant sugar on Formosa. Incidence of tuberculosis (TB) rises dramatically in Japan.

Mother Theresa born

12

1911 General vaccination programs against typhoid begin in the United States.

Britain passes the "Official Secrets Act" which prevents future discussion of anything the government deems secret.

Crisco & Junket introduced

13

1912 - 1913 Two Balkan Wars are fought for control of the European territories of the Ottoman Empire

1912 First International Congress of Eugenics at the University of London. The president of the Congress is Leonard Darwin, son of Charles Darwin. One of the first English vice presidents is Winston Churchill. American vice- presidents included Charles Elliot, president emeritus of Harvard, and Alexander Graham Bell. Also attending was Starr Jordon, president of Stanford University.

1912 First whooping cough (Pertussis) vaccine created by two French bacteriologists, Jules Bordet and Octave Gengou, who wanted to use it in Tunisia. After they grew Pertussis bacteria in large pots, they killed it with heat, mixed it with formaldehyde (used to embalm bodies) and injected it into children.

Lincoln Highway Association dedicated to mark an automobile route across the U.S. in 1912

Oreos & maraschino cherries introduced

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1913 John D. Rockefeller founds Rockefeller Institute with $100 million grant.

First Inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson 1913

The American Cancer Society is formed.

15

1914 - 1918 World War I, initially in Europe, then worldwide

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1915 A doctor in Mississippi alters the diet of 12 prison inmates and is successful in producing pellagra (a vitamin deficiency disease), using reverse logic in an "attempt to find a cure for the disease".

1915 Tetanus epidemics in trenches of World War I.

1918 Great influenza epidemic

In 1915 Rand McNally produces stencils for local organizations to use to mark name or symbol associated with a particular route along its path

J.P. Morgan organizes control of US newspaper businesses.

Two million cars registered in U.S. by 1915

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The first evidence of brown mottling of teeth is reported in the United States.

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1917 - 1918 Russian Revolution

1917 AMA hostile toward compulsory health insurance.

1917 Freud writes "Introduction to Psychoanalysis".

Constituents try and force Harrison Drug Control Act on Coca-Cola and are defeated.

Fifteen states in the US have eugenics laws on the books which authorize sterilization of criminals, epileptics, the retarded and insane.

Moon pies introduced

Outbreaks of encephalitis in China and Europe.

Post WW1 supplies of chlorine designated to be added to water supplies.

Second Inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson 1917

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1918 - 1919 Great Poland Uprising, Provinz Posen against Germany

1918 - 1919 Poland and Lwow against Westukrainian Republic

1918 - 1920 Estonian Liberation War, Estonia against Soviet Russia and the Germans.

1918 - 1922 Russian Civil War, fought between "the reds" (Communists) and "the whites" (tsarists) directly after the Bolshevist Revolution. US, France and Great Britain also intervened to "kill communism in the crib."

1918 Finnish Civil War, fought between "the reds" (rebellious Socialists) and "the whites" (anti-Socialists) in the aftermath of the Russian Revolutions of 1917. Germany intervened on the side of the Whites.

1918 Polish-Czech war in Teschen Silesia

Fortune cookies introduced

The Espionage Act of 1918

The Surgeon General of the United States issues a report that states that tuberculosis is the leading cause for discharge of men from the Armed Forces.

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1919 - 1921 Polish-Soviet war Poland and Ukrainian Peoples Republic against Soviets

1919 First Silesian Uprising

1919 Third Anglo-Afghan War

Billy Graham born

Death rate from encephalitis accelerates. Between 1919 and 1928, over 500,000 deaths and 1,000,000 cases of neurological impairment were attributed to this disease, which affects males more than females. Recent research indicates that this epidemic was a late manifestation of the post World War I influenza outbreaks, and that both were due to the appearance of a swine flu virus.

Hostess cup cakes introduced

1920's

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1920 Second Silesian Uprising Silesian Poles against Germany

By 1920 Gulf Oil gives away 16 million maps of eastern U.S. per year

Eskimo Pie & Good Humor & Yoo-hoo introduced

Nobel Prize winner (1931) Dr. Otto Warburg begins conducting experiments with human cells and pathogenesis of cancer.

Prohibition in the US brings narcotics trafficking and large scale organized crime into the US.

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1921 BCG tuberculosis vaccine developed.

1921 Third Silesian Uprising Silesian Poles against Germany

Ghandi begins agitating against the British opium imports into India. He would be eventually assassinated.

Inauguration of President Warren G. Harding 1921

Wonder Bread, Wheaties & zucchini introduced

A study by Samuel Torrey Orton connects emotional disturbance with neurological problems. This insight was lost after World War II when psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis became popular, breaking the connection.

Aluminum production (along with production of toxic by-product sodium fluoride) increases. Aluminum cookware is mass introduced in the US, beginning the gradual accumulation of aluminum in the brains of Americans. Additional aluminum is injected into society in "antacids".

By 1922,more than 100 radiologists died from X-ray induced cancer.

Coca-Cola plant built in Ashtabula, Ohio. The drink contains coal tar derivatives, flavoring, and massive amounts of sugar.

Gummi Bears & Clark Bars & Girl Scout Cookies introduced

1923 Canadian physician Frederick Banting receives Nobel Prize for discovery of a way to extract the hormone insulin, which permitted control of blood sugar in those with diabetes.

Earl of Inchscape publishes his report which insists that British opium trade must be maintained to protect the revenue of the British Empire, much to the protest of the League of Nations.

Popsicles introduced

1924 Dr. Seale Harris of the University of Alabama discovers that sugar can cause hyperinsulinism and recommends people cut sugar consumption. The medical establishment comes down on Harris and his work is suppressed. Harris would be awarded a medal by the AMA 25 years later, as pharmaceuticals to control low blood sugar are developed and put into production.

1924 Heroin, originally created by I.G. Farben, is outlawed as a prescription drug in the United States.

Frozen foods & pineapple upside-down cake introduced

"Monkey Trial" of John T. Scopes in Tennessee after he teaches evolution in his classroom

1925 General vaccine programs against tuberculosis began in the United States.

Danish researcher Thorvald Madsen tries a modified Pertussis vaccine during an epidemic in the Faroc Islands. It did not prevent Pertussis.

I.G. Farben, German chemical industry conglomerate, is reorganized by the Warburgs as a merger between Badische Anilin, Bayer, Agfa, Hoechst, Welierter-Meer, and Griesheim Elektron.

Inauguration of President Calvin Coolidge 1925

General Medical Society for Psychotherapy created in Germany, an international organization.

Ice cream sandwich introduced