April 22 in Medical History
22 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- HMS Seahorse, infected with smallpox, arrives in Boston Harbor, causing the first outbreak in two decades; half of the population contracts it, resulting in 850 deaths
- First military use of poison gas occurs when Germany uses chlorine gas against the Allies along the Western Front at Ypres, France in World War I
- First human eye transplant is performed
- Rolling Stones Benefit ConcertsThe Rolling Stones play two benefit concerts for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, in Oshawa, Ontario; performance part of guitarist Keith Richards ’ heroin conviction sentence
- "Candid Camera" creator Allen Funt suffers a stroke at 78
- 30-year-old woman collapses and dies during London Marathon
- Sudan bans female genital mutilation and makes it a criminal offense
- India sets a world record for daily COVID-19 cases recording 314,835 new cases with 2,104 deaths
- Record outbreak of dengue fever in northwest Argentina kills over 40 people and infects more than 60,000
Born on this day
- Jean Léonard Marie PoiseuilleFrench physician and physiologist (blood pressure), born in Paris (d. 1869)
- Róbert BárányAustrian-Swedish otologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)
- Otto RankAustrian-American psychologist and academic (died 1939)
- Rita Levi-MontalciniItalian neurologist (Nobel 1986), born in Turin, Italy (d. 2012)
- Eric ScowenEnglish physician and Professor of Medicine (University of London, 1961-75), born in West Ham, London (d. 2001)
- Wolf V. VishniacAmerican microbiologist and academic (died 1973)
- Bruce E. IvinsAmerican microbiologist and suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks investigation, born in Lebanon, Ohio (d. 2008)
Died on this day
- Antoine de JussieuFrench naturalist, dies at 71
- Friedrich Robert FaehlmannEstonian philologist and physician (born 1798)
- Magnus HussSwedish physician who coined the word alcoholism and was the first to define it as a disease, dies at 82
- Jacques FerronCanadian physician and author (born 1921)
- (Raymond) "Bill" HoffenbergSouth African-British endocrinologist and college president (Wolfson at Oxford, 1985-93), dies at 84
- Eugene BraunwaldAustrian-American cardiologist known as "The Father of Modern Cardiology" (Braunwald's Heart Disease), dies at 96