April 19 in Medical History
15 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Theatrum Anatomicum opens in Amsterdam
- Hofmann Takes LSDBicycle Day honours Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann discovering the effects of LSD
- Fire in psychiatric institute in South Korea, kills 40
- Turkey passes Iran to become the Middle Eastern country with the most COVID-19 cases with 86,306 infections, Iran continues to have the most deaths
- US COVID-19 death toll passes 40,000, with 742,442 cases recorded according to Johns Hopkins tally
- Sleepwalked into DisasterUK COVID-19 death toll reaches 16,060 (hospitals only), as "The Sunday Times" criticizes Boris Johnson 's government's response, saying they "sleepwalked into disaster"
- New Zealand and Australia open a travel bubble between the two countries after more than a year of border closures
Born on this day
- Sir Alexander OgstonBritish surgeon (discovered Staphylococcus), educator, and military doctor, born in Aberdeen, Scotland (d. 1929)
- Ernst RüdinSwiss-German psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist, born in St. Gallen, Switzerland (d. 1952)
- Andrew WilkinsonBritish pediatrician and the first Professor of Paediatric Surgery in the UK, born in Taunton, England (d. 1995)
Died on this day
- John Cuspinianus [Spiessheimer]German physician, dies at about 55
- Galenus Abrahamsz de HaenDutch Mennonite minister (The War of the Lambs), and physician, dies at 83
- Benjamin RushEarly American physician, writer, abolitionist, educator, and signer of the Declaration of Independence, dies of typhus fever at 67
- Percy Lavon JulianAfrican American chemist who received 130 patents, pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants, dies at 76 (1899-1975)
- François JacobFrench biologist and bacteriologist (Nobel Prize 1965), dies at 92