April 5 in Medical History
28 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
- Babe Ruth CollapsesYankees whip Dodgers in exhibition 16-9 but Babe Ruth collapses in NC due to an ulcer
- 60 year old St Anthony's Hospital in Effingham, Illinois, catches fire, killing 77 people
- Several hundred-thousand abortion rights demonstrators march in Washington, D.C.
- COVID-19 PandemicBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitted to hospital suffering from COVID-19
- India records over 100,000 new daily COVID cases for the first time, more than half in the state of Maharashtra, which begins a new lockdown
- Shanghai lockdown extended to cover the whole city as COVID-19 cases increase, as China remains one of the last to employ a "zero-Covid" system
- Science's $3 million Breakthrough Prize awarded to scientists who led development of weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, Daniel Drucker, Joel Habener, Jens Juul Holst and Lotte Bjerre Knudsen
Born on this day
- Joseph ListerBritish surgeon (pioneer of antiseptic surgery ), born in Upton House, West Ham, England (1827-1912)
- Wilhelm Olbers FockeGerman medical doctor and botanist (died 1922)
- Friedrich Sigmund MerkelGerman anatomist and histopathologist (died 1919)
- Sigmund ExnerAustrian physiologist (died 1926)
- Samuel Cate PrescottAmerican food scientist and microbiologist, born in South Hampton, New Hampshire (d. 1962)
- Alfred BlalockAmerican surgeon and academic (died 1964)
- Jan ZeldenrustDutch pathologist and anatomist, born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1990)
- Janet D. RowleyAmerican physician and the first person to identify a chromosomal translocation in any cancer, born in New York City (d. 2013)
- Pedro RossellóPuerto Rican politician (U.S. House of Representatives from Puerto Rico, 2017-19; Governor of Puerto Rico, 1993-2001), born in San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Rochelle WalenskyAmerican physician and medical researcher (Director of the CDC 2021-2023), born in Peabody, Massachusetts
Died on this day
- Thomas HodgkinBritish physician (born 1798)
- Hans Ernst August BuchnerGerman bacteriologist (born 1850)
- Hermann Joseph MullerAmerican geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1890)
- Wilder PenfieldAmerican-born Canadian neurosurgeon, dies at 85 (1891-1976)
- Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter JrAmerican chemist and NASA astronaut (STS 33), dies at 43
- Paul DavidFrench Canadian cardiologist and founder of the Montreal Heart Institute, dies at 79
- Thomas Stoltz HarveyAmerican pathologist (born 1912)
- Baruch Samuel BlumbergAmerican scientist, (1976 Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine, for work on Hepatitis B), dies at 85
- Fredric BrandtAmerican dermatologist and author (born 1949)
- Philip SunshineAmerican physician who helped revolutionize neonatal care for premature babies, dies at 94