The Harrison Act has been called the single most important piece of drug legislation in the history of American medicine. Approved in 1914 and enacted in March, 1915 by the 63rd Congress (Woodrow Wilson was President), it is considered by many historians to be the beginning of the progressive and now dominating influence of the
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In the spring of 1853 Queen Victoria was 34 years old and pregnant with her fourth child. Her first three children had been born at Buckingham Palace with her personal physician James Clark in attendance. The fourth child was to be born on the morning of April 7, 1853 in much the same circumstances except one – the use of chloroform that
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