The Ransdell Act (ch. 251, , codified as amended at , , ), reorganized, expanded and redesignated the ''Laboratory of Hygiene'' (created in 1887) as the National Institute of Health. Congress appropriated $750,000 in the bill for construction of facilities and research fellowships. The NIH grew into today's 27-unit

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). The Ransdell Act was sponsored by and named for Joseph E. Ransdell, a

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for the state of

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