August 1 in Medical History
27 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- The Anatomy Act in the UK ends the practice of body snatching from graves by allowing the use of unclaimed bodies from prisons, workhouses, and hospitals
- US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, San Francisco Bay
- US begging its first zero-gravity research experiments
- Jerry Garcia Released From HospitalGrateful Dead's Jerry Garcia is released from hospital after a 3-week coma
- Nurse Mary R. Stout is chosen as chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America
- Actor Walter Koenig, known for Pavel Chekov in "Star Trek," undergoes heart surgery after suffering a heart attack
- First patient receives the Jarvik 2000, the first total artificial heart that maintains blood flow in addition to generating a pulse
- Indiana Pacers NBA superstar Paul George suffers a gruesome compound fracture of his lower right leg during a Team USA scrimmage
- Anthrax outbreak in Yamalo-Nenets, Siberia, kills one person, infects eight others, and kills 2,300 reindeer; global warming is blamed
- Protesting Kenyan cancer survivors in Nairobi urge their government to declare a "national disaster" in a country with only 35 oncologists for 40 million people
- The US passes the 35 million mark in COVID-19 cases with California becoming the first state to record 4 million cases
- Fauci's WarningAmerican virologist Dr. Anthony Fauci says "things are going to get worse" as US COVID-19 cases double in 10 days due to surge of Delta variant
Born on this day
- Konstantinos LogothetopoulosGreek physician and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1961)
- John Friend MahoneyAmerican physician who pioneered the treatment of syphilis with penicillin, born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (d. 1957)
- Ruth Evelyn Mansfield (née Webster)British physician and anaesthetist, born in Lambeth, London (d. 1994)
- James Mourilyan TannerBritish paediatric endocrinologist (died 2010)
- Monty LosowskyBritish physician and medical educator (St. James University Hospital in Leeds, 1962-96), born in London (d. 2020)
- Bob FrankfordEnglish-Canadian physician and politician (died 2015)
- Jens Juul HolstDanish physician and physiologist known for discovering GLP-1 (2025 Breakthrough Prize), born in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Fiona StanleyAustralian epidemiologist (Telethon Institute for Child Health Research), born in Little Bay, Sydney, Australia
Died on this day
- Edward TysonEnglish physician and father of comparative anatomy (The Anatomy of a Pygmy), dies at 57
- Emmanuel-Persillier LachapelleCanadian physician and founder of Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal), dies at 72
- Richard KuhnAustrian-German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate (born 1900)
- Otto Heinrich WarburgGerman physician (Nobel-1931), dies at 86
- Lucille Teasdale-CortiCanadian physician and international aid worker (b. 1929)
- Tadeusz ReichsteinPolish-Swiss chemist (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 1950 - isolation and discovery of cortisone ), dies at 99
- Bob FrankfordEnglish-Canadian physician and politician (born 1939)