The Life and Times of
Martha Fulkerson Henson Robertson

1820's

Dr. Francis Lieber (1800-1872), from Berlin begins editing the Encyclopaedia Americana in Boston in 1827. He is most widely known as the author of the Lieber Code during the American Civil War, also known as Code for the Government of Armies in the Field (1863), which laid the foundation for conventions governing the conduct of troops during wartime.

Edgar Alan Poe (1809-1849) publishes his first book, best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. Poe published his first book, "Tamerlane and Other Poems," in 1827.

Francisco Morazán leads the Liberals in a civil war in Honduras - the war lasts about two years.

Russian troops conquer Iran.

Baltimore & Ohio first US passenger Rail Road was begun on July 4, 1828.

1828 - 1829 Russo-Turkish War, 1828-29

1829-1831 Pope Pius VIII

Catholic Emancipation Act removes last vestige of oppression in England.

Coenraad Johannes van Houten (1801-1887), a Dutch chemist and chocolate maker, developed the first modern process for making cocoa powder. Soon producers in Holland had learned that alkali could be added to neutralize various acids, making a mild, more soluble cocoa. This process is still called "dutching" today. A method for pressing the fat (cocoa butter) from roasted cocoa beans, was his father's, Casparus van Houten (1770-1858), invention.

Helsinki replaces Turku as the site of Finland's sole university.

Leo Tolstoy is born.

Noah Webster published his "The American Dictionary of the English Language" in 1828.

Russo-Turkish wars (again... from 1828-1829) Russia gains control of the eastern coast of the Black Sea.

South Carolina declared right of state nullification of federal laws on December 19, 1828, opposing "Tariff of Abominations."

Uruguay wins independence from Spain.

First Inauguration of President Andrew Jackson 1829

Gottfried Duden (1789-1856) published in Germany his idyllic account of the several years he spent as a settler in Missouri. Entitled Bericht über eine Reise nach den westlichen Staaten Nordamerika's, or "Report of a journey to the western states of North America", it gave romantic and glowing descriptions of the Missouri River valley between St. Louis and Hermann, Missouri. He established a farm near what is now Dutzow, Missouri along the Missouri River near Washington, Missouri. His book on the region, comparing the Missouri River to the Rhine in Germany, and his positive remarks concerning the climate, culture and soils in Missouri led to tens of thousands of German immigrants to the area beginning in the 1830s. By 1860, more than 38,000 Germans had settled in the lower Missouri River valley and thousands more to other parts of America.

Greeks win independence from the Ottoman empire at the end of a successful war of independence waged by the Greek revolutionaries between 1821 and 1830, with later assistance from several European powers

Pope Pius VIII

The first steam driven train is developed for use between Manchester and Liverpool.

Treaty of Adrianople concluded the Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829 between Russia and the Ottoman Empire.

1830's

1830 - 1831 Polish-Russian war following November Uprising

1830 Britain imports 18,956 chests of opium to China. Opium becomes the largest commodity in world trade.

Soft drinks in America introduced

1831 Cholera epidemic spreads from Russia to Central Europe.

1831 Smallpox epidemic in Wurtemberg, Germany, where 995 vaccinated people succumb to the disease.

In Marseilles, France, 2000 vaccinated people are stricken with smallpox

Birth

Martha Fulkerson Henson Robertson born during 1832

Christian Hahnemann creates school of homeopathy.

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Her husband, William Henson, born during 1833

1833 Mercury amalgam fillings introduced in NYC. Dentists rebelled.

Second Inauguration of President Andrew Jackson 1833

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1835 First availability of powerful compound microscopes.

1835 Toledo War between US territory of Michigan and the US state of Ohio

Worcestershire Sauce introduced

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1836 First recorded case of the use of psychiatry to suppress dissent in Russia.

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Idaho potatoes introduced

Inauguration of President Martin Van Buren 1837

Ralph Waldo Emerson's Concord Hymn July 4, 1837

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1838 Smallpox epidemic in England.

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1839 - 1842 First Anglo-Afghan War

1839 - 1842 Second Anglo-Afghan War

1839 First time a disease is traced to a parasitic organism. (Schoenlein, fungal infection of scalp).

1840's

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Baltimore Dental College graduates swore not to use mercury amalgam.

First Opium War in China, as Chinese protest British import of drugs.

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Inauguration of President William Henry Harrison 1841

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1843 - 1872 Several Maori Land Wars in New Zealand

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Inauguration of President James K. Polk 1845

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1846 - 1848 Mexican War between the United States and Mexico

Nucleus of physicians in New York form the American Medical Association.

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Chinese food in America introduced

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1848 - 1849 Hungarian Revolt of 1848 waged by Hungary against Austria and later Russia

1848 - 1851 First war of Schleswig

1848 Dr.Semmelweis at the University of Vienna Medical School cuts infant deaths by requiring doctors to wash their hands. Subsequently fired.

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Concord grapes introduced

Inauguration of President Zachary Taylor 1849

1850's

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1850 - 1865 Taiping Rebellion

A new way of thinking develops in German science, which maintains that people are similar to complex machines. It does nothing to take into account the spiritual basis of man. This thinking becomes the basis for experiments in psychology in order to discover the nature of humans and how to program them. The work of Wundt is the primary source of these ideas. American elite begin to come to Germany to study this way of thinking.

British physician presents a paper detailing microscopic examination of food products to the US . The paper revealed that all food products examined in Britain were adulterated with foreign substances, including chemicals. Hearings periodically held for decades.

Homeopathic college founded in Cleveland, Ohio.

Modern marshmallows introduced

US prison population is 29 per100,000 (This goes up to 250 per 100,000 by 1994).

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1853 Chloroform first used as anesthetic in England.

1853 Dr. Isaac Brown, a prominent British surgeon and president of the Medical Society of London, creates a surgical procedure to remove the clitoris from women on the grounds that "masturbation caused epilepsy and convulsive diseases."

1853 First use of hypodermic needle for subcutaneous injection.

1853 Smallpox epidemic in England.

In England, the Compulsory Vaccination Act . From 1853 to 1860, vaccination reached 75% of the live births and more than 90% of the population.

Inauguration of President Franklin Pierce 1853

Potato chips introduced

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1854 - 1856 Crimean War.

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1855 Compulsory nature of Massachusetts vaccination statute firm, and a pre- condition for school admittance. Statutes created in the belief it would "protect children from smallpox."

1855 Outbreak of cholera in England.

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Condensed milk introduced

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Martha Fulkerson Henson Robertson married William Henson during 1857

1857 - 1901 Caste War of Yucat?n

1857 Vaccination in England enforced by fines. Smallpox epidemic begins in England that lasts until 1859. Over 14,000 die.

Inauguration of President James Buchanan 1857

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1858 England experiences a 7 year epidemic of Pertussis (ending in 1865) in which 120,000 die.

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1859 - 1860 Italian Independence War

1869 Mohandas Gandhi born

Darwin publishes The Origin of Species

Rumford Baking Powder introduced

1860's

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Fish & chips introduced

Introduction of antibiotics and immunization into the US.

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1861 - 1865 American Civil War in the United States

First Inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln March 4, 1861

The Battle Hymn of the Republic

The Constitution of the Confederate States of America March 11, 1861

The Declaration of Causes of seceding states Winter 1861

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December 1682 Henry de Tonti made Governor of Illinois by France.

McClellan's Letter to President Lincoln July 7, 1862

Vernor's Ginger Ale & Gulden's mustard introduced

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Her husband, William Henson, died during 1863

Martha Fulkerson Henson Robertson married Adam Robinson on November 11, 1863

1863 Second major epidemic of smallpox in England lasts until 1865. 20,000 die.

Breakfast cereal introduced

The Gettysburg Address Nov. 19, 1863

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1864 Pasteur invents pasteurization process for wine.

1864 Second war of Schleswig

The Emancipation Proclamation 1864

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1865 George Peabody (Rothschilds) conceives of "tax exempt charitable foundation".

1865 U.S. President Lincoln assassinated

Second Inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln 1865

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1866 - 1868 Red Cloud's War between the Lakota and the United States

1866 Austro-Prussian War (aka Seven Weeks War)

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1867 Joseph Lister introduces sanitation into surgery,over the objections of leading English surgeons.

Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage by Frederick Douglass Jan. 1867

Underwood Deviled Ham introduced

Vaccination Act of 1867 in England begins to elicit protest from the population and increase in the number of anti-vaccination groups. It compelled the vaccination of a baby within the first 90 days of its life. Those who objected would be continually badgered by magistrates and fined until the child turned 14. The law was passed on the assurance of medical officials that smallpox vaccinations were safe.

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Tabasco sauce & Fleischmann's Yeast introduced

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Conference of the British Medical Association devotes its surgery discussions to an attack on antiseptic theory and the work of Lister.

First Inauguration of President Ulysses S. Grant 1869

1870's

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1870 - 1871 Franco-Prussian War

1870 Third major smallpox epidemic in England begins and lasts until 1872. Over 44,800 die.

Margarine introduced

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1871 Kaiser Wilhelm I declares a German Empire

1871 Worldwide epidemic of smallpox begins. Claims 8 million people worldwide.

In Bavaria, Germany, vaccination is compulsory and re-vaccination is commonplace. Out of 30,472 cases of smallpox, 29,429 had been vaccinated.

In Birmingham, England from 1871 to 1874, there were 7,706 cases of smallpox. Out of these, 6,795 had been vaccinated.

Select committee of the Privy Council convened to inquire into the Vaccination Act of 1867 (England), as 97.5% of the people who died from smallpox were vaccinated for it.

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1872 - 1873 Modoc War between the Modoc and the United States

Japan institutes compulsory smallpox vaccination. Within 20 years 165,000 smallpox cases manifest themselves.

Philadelphia cream cheese & Graham crackers introduced

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Second Inauguration of President Ulysses S. Grant 1873

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California raisins introduced

Public Health Act of 1875 in England promotes sanitary conditions.

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1876 - 1877 Black Hills War between the Lakota and the United States

Heinz Ketchup introduced

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1877 - 1878 Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78

Bicycles begin to be mass produced in the United States in 1877

Inauguration of President Rutherford B. Hayes 1877

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Louis Pasteur tells his family never to show anyone his lab notebooks. His last surviving grandson donated the documents to the Bibiotheque Nationale in Paris in 1964. Later, historians would begin to examine Pasteurs notes and would find evidence of potential scientific misconduct and a large degree of dubious human experimentation.

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1879 Joseph Stalin born

Saccharin introduced

1880's

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1880 Recorded death rate from diabetes in Denmark is 1.8 per 100,000. (This will go up to 8 per100.00 in 1911 and 19 per 100,000 in 1934).

Beginning of a 20 year period where elite American students of Wundt in Germany return and become heads of psychology departments at Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell and all major universities and colleges. Wundt trains James Cattell, who returns to the US and trains over 300 in the Wundtian system which, with help from the Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations, eventually assume control of psychological testing in the United States for all the soldiers of the First World War.

Salt water taffy & French dressing introduced

Smallpox vaccinations start in the United States.

Sweden consumption of refined sugar 12 pounds per person annually. (This will go up to 120 lb per person annually in 1929).

The League of American Wheelmean is founded and begins producing maps and handbooks of the eastern U.S. in 1880

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1881 President Garfield assassinated

Inauguration of President James Garfield 1881

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1882 Koch isolates the TB Bacillus. TB death rate 370 per 100,000.

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1884 In England, more that 1700 children vaccinated for smallpox die of syphillis.

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1885 General vaccination program against rabies begins in the United States.

First Inauguration of President Grover Cleveland 1885

Milk shakes & Dr Pepper & evaporated milk introduced

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Coca Cola introduced

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1887 - 1889 Italo-Abyssinian War

1887 New York doctor Ephraim Cutter publishes a book on cancer and the diet.

Malted milk & Georgia pecans introduced

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1888 Bacteriological Institute opens in Paris for experimentation with animals and production of vaccines and sera. Other institutes open around the world modeled after the Paris Institute.

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Inauguration of President Benjamin Harrison 1889

Most of Britain's food production becomes industrialized.

Pizza introduced

1890's

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1890 Emil vin Behring announces discovery of anti-toxins.

Andrew Carnegie writes a series of eleven essays called "The Gospel of Wealth", a treatise which essentially stated that free enterprise and capitalism no longer existed in the United States, because he and Rockefeller owned everything, including the government, and that competition was impossible unless they allowed it. Eventually, says Carnegie, the young children will become aware of this and form clandestine organizations to fight against it. Carnegie proposes that men of wealth form a synthetic free enterprise system based on cradle-to-grave schooling. The people who advanced through schooling would be given licenses to lead profitable lives. All licenses are tied to forms of schooling. This way, the entire economy can be controlled and people have a motivation for them to learn what you want them to learn. It also places the minds of all children in the hands of a few social engineers.

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Fig Newtons & Knox Gelatine introduced

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1892 Cholera epidemic in Hamburg, Germany. Threat of importation into the US forced the establishment of the New York City Health Department division of Pathology, Bateriology and Disinfection.

America takes the lead in world wide sugar consumption, surpassing the British. Sugar consumption would double again by 1920.

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1893 German Dr.Julius Hensel states that processed flour is devoid of nutrients.

1893 Johns Hopkins Medical School established. Headquarters of German Allopathic Medicine.

First American automobiles produced in 1893

Fudge & Cracker Jacks introduced

Second Inauguration of President Grover Cleveland 1893

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1894 - 1895 First Sino-Japanese War

Hershey bars & Sen-Sen introduced

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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

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Chop suey & oatmeal cookies introduced

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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

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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

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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

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1901 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research founded.

Peanut butter & jelly introduced

Second Inauguration of President William McKinley 1901

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

Karo syrup introduced

Nabisco's Animal Crackers introduced

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Canned tuna introduced

Pope St. Pius X

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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

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1905 Food and Drug Act passed in the United States.

1905 Russo-Japanese War

Inauguration of President Theodore Roosevelt 1905

New York pizza introduced

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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

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

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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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"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

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

Ice cream sandwich introduced

1927 Austrian psychiatrist Menfred Sakel develops insulin shock (insulin coma treatment, ICT). Patients are overdosed with insulin, which induces a coma. By 1937, all neuropsychiatric hospitals in Germany would use ICT.

1927 Oliver Wendell Holmes writes the US Supreme Court decision in the case Buck v. Bell. In the case, a psychiatric inmate, Carrie Buck, was chosen for sterilization after having a child because she was deemed "feeble-minded". Justice Holmes wrote, "It is better if society can prevent our being swamped with incompetance".

By 1927 U.S. highway routes become uniformly marked and mapped

Kool-Aid & Pez introduced

Smallpox in England dwindles almost to the vanishing point.

1928 Fleming discovers penicillin.

1928 Third International Congress of Eugenics. At the conference, a Dr. Robie calls for the sterilization of 14 million Americans with low IQ scores.

Development of of the EEG machine and the discovery brain waves.

Edward L.Bernays, nephew to Sigmund Freud, writes the book Propaganda, in which he explains the structure of the mechanism which controls the public mind, and how it is manipulated by those who wish to create public acceptance for a particular idea or commodity. Says Bernays, "those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. Our minds are molded, our tastes are formed, largely by men we have never heard of."

Gerber's baby food & Heath bars introduced

John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil interlocks his empire with I.G. Farben in Germany.

Dr. Wiley's Bureau of Chemisty is dismantled and replaced by the Food Drug and Insecticide Administration, precursor of the FDA. Lists of "dubious compounds in food" were declared "Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS)".

I.G. Farben concluded limited cartel agreements with Dupont Chemical in US.

Inauguration of President Herbert Hoover 1929

Po'Boy & hot Italian sandwiches introduced

1930's

1930 Max Theiler develops a yellow fever vaccine.

Twinkies & Jiffy biscuit mix & dry soup mix introduced

William Wirt, who pioneered Carnegie's German Wundt school system in Gary, Indiana and tried it in New York, is committed to an insane asylum in Washington, D.C where he died in 1932. Wirt was committed because he began to make public speeches saying that he had been part of a world wide conspiracy to bring about a controlled state in the hands of certain people.

1931 Fluoride in drinking water is found to be the cause of brown teeth - now known as dental fluorosis.

1931 I.G. Farben and Alcoa Aluminum sign Alig Agreement pooling patents.

Bisquick & Vidalia onions & tacos in LA & refrigerator biscuits introduced

H.Trendley Dean of the U.S. Public Health Service initiates studies on fluorides under the jurisdiction of Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon. Mellon is founder of Alcoa aluminum, who is one of the main suppliers of sodium fluoride as a by-product of aluminum manufacture. He publishes a study showing that, at 1ppm, fluoride results in the reduction of tooth decay.

Roosevelt endorses polio "immune serum", precursor to vaccines in 1950's.