April 7 in Medical History
16 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- World Health Day (International observance)
Events
- Queen Victoria's Use of ChloroformQueen Victoria asks John Snow to administer chloroform during the delivery of her eighth child, Leopold, leads to wider acceptance of obstetrical anesthesia
- 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in NYC) by Dr K Winfield Ney
- World Health Organization is formed by the United Nations
- National Museum of Female Physicians opens in Washington, D.C.
- China ends its lockdown of Wuhan, the city at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic after 76 days as the country reports no new deaths for the 1st time
- COVID-19 pandemic: Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly resigns for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt and the dismissal of Brett Crozier.
- UK COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 (Alpha) now the dominant variant in the US according to the CDC, as 108 million Americans have received at least one vaccine dose
- U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk suspends Food and Drug Administration's approval of key abortion pill mifepristone, leading to US government request for legal appeal to stop nationwide ban
Born on this day
- Anderson AbbottCanadian physician and writer (first Canadian-born black doctor), born in Toronto, Canada (d. 1913)
- Jon van RoodDutch immunologist (Eurotransplant), born in Scheveningen, Netherlands (d. 2017)
- Douglas KellEnglish biochemist and academic
Died on this day
- Petrus CamperDutch anatomist and anthropologist who studied comparative anatomy, paleontology and the facial angle, dies at 66
- Carl Theodor Ernst von SieboldGerman zoologist known for his work on parasitology and invertebrates, dies at 81
- Alexander BogdanovRussian physician and philosopher, dies at 54
- Heinz LehmannGerman-Canadian psychiatrist and academic (born 1911)