1847: Sir James Young Simpson introduces chloroform anesthesia
1849: Cholera epidemic in US kills people living in inner cities and on the trail to the California Gold Rush
1861-1865: Civil War
1865: Joseph Lister introduces antiseptic treatment of wounds
1867: Louis Pasteur proved the Germ Theory of disease
1876: Alexander Graham Bell invents telephone
1879: Thomas Edison invents electric light bulb
1882-3: Robert Koch identifies the microbes that caused tuberculosis and cholera
1895: Wilhelm Roentgen discovers x-rays
1847
Founding of AMA at Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia (Founder, Nathan S. Davis MD)
AMA Committee on Medical Education appointed
AMA establishes standards for preliminary medical education and for the degree of MD
AMA Code of Medical Ethics written and published
1848
AMA recommends that the value of anesthetic agents in medicine, surgery and obstetrics be determined
1849
AMA establishes a board to analyze quack remedies and nostrums and to enlighten the public in regard to the nature and danger of such remedies
1858
AMA establishes Committee on Ethics
1873
AMA Judicial Council founded to deal with ethical and constitutional issues
1883
Journal of the American Medical Association founded; Nathan Davis is first editor
1898
AMA Committee on Scientific Research is established to provide grants for fostering medical research
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