Today in Medical History

April 10 in Medical History

18 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.

Events

6
  1. 1938NY makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage licensePublic health / PolicyOnThisDay
  2. 194312 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape NazisMental healthOnThisDay
  3. 1972US, USSR and 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons at the Biological Weapons ConventionPublic health / PolicyOnThisDay
  4. 1995NYC bans smoking in all restaurants that seat 35 or morePublic health / PolicyOnThisDay
  5. 2019Four tiny sweat bees removed alive from a woman's eye in world's first operation of its kind at Fooyin University Hospital, TaiwanSurgery / Procedure / DeviceOnThisDay
  6. 2019New York declares a public health emergency and compulsory vaccinations after a measles outbreak in Brooklyn with 285 casesDisease / EpidemicOnThisDay

Born on this day

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  1. 1651Ehrenfried Walther von TschirnhausGerman mathematician (Tschirnhaus transformation), born in Kieslingswalde, Margraviate Upper Lusatia, Saxony (d. 1708)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  2. 1755Samuel HahnemannGerman physician, originator of homeopathy, born in Meissen, Dresden (d. 1843)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  3. 1762Giovanni AldiniItalian physicist, born in Bologna (d. 1834)Medical scientistWikipedia
  4. 1879Coenraad HiebendaalDutch rower and medical doctor (died 1921)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  5. 1887Bernardo HoussayArgentine physiologist (Nobel 1947), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1971)Medical scientistWikipedia
  6. 1915Leo VromanDutch-American hematologist and poet, born in Gouda, Netherlands (d. 2014)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  7. 1927Marshall Warren NirenbergJewish-American biochemist and geneticist (Nobel 1968), born in New York City (d. 2010)Medical scientistWikipedia

Died on this day

5
  1. 1667Jan Marek MarciCzech medical doctor and author (born 1595)Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
  2. 1752William CheseldenEnglish surgeon and anatomist, dies at 63Physician / SurgeonOnThisDay
  3. 1983Issam SartawiPLO ambassador to Portugal, murderedPhysician / SurgeonWikipedia
  4. 1999Heinz Fraenkel-ConratGerman-born biochemist (b. 1910)Medical scientistWikipedia
  5. 2013Robert EdwardsEnglish physiologist, 1st IVF program, Nobel Prize 2010, dies at 87Medical scientistWikipedia

Sources: onthisday.com and Wikipedia's “On this day” (text under CC BY-SA 4.0), screened for medical relevance. Each entry links to its source.