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1771

Eleazar Wheelock brings John Crane, the town's first physician, to Hanover.

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Dr.Crane is charged with malpractice.

1782

Gideon Tiffany, an illiterate, opens a medical practice in Hanover.

1804

At the behest of the Trustees, Nathan Smith becomes the town's first competent physician. He goes on to found the Dartmouth Medical School.

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Nearly a third of the student body contracts typhoid fever.

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The first medical X-ray is made in Reed Hall.

1903

Reacting to an outbreak of typhoid fever at Cornell, the Dartmouth Trustees enlarge Hanover's watershed.

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Statisticians at Alumni Gym find a link between obesity and poor academic performance.

1926

The Hall family donates $226,000 to build an infirmary in memory of son Richard Hall '27. The building is named Dick's House.

1946

A special campus committee reports that "the College must anticipate a considerable degree of interest in sex and should provide a means for sublimating this interest..."

1987

The Safer Sex Kit makes a controversial campus debut.

1992

A randomized doubleblind, placebo-controlled test of sniffling Dartmouth students concludes that a zinc lozenge decreases the misery of a common cold.

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The condoms and cold medicines available for free at Dick's House are a drain on the College budget. College officials compensate by marketing those items from convenient vending machines in Thayer. Students complain about high prices.

Dartmouth's doctors have notalways offered primary care.