August 10 in Medical History
22 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Aspirin SynthesizedGerman chemist Felix Hoffmann first synthesizes acetylsalicylic acid, which is later patented by his company Bayer under the name "aspirin"
- Kaiser Permanente Health CareHenry J. Kaiser opens the Kaiser Richmond Field Hospital for Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California, pioneering the Kaiser Permanente healthcare model
- NFL sportscaster Paul Maguire suffers a heart attack at 53
- Scientists study identifying nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) deficiency as a major cause of miscarriages and multiple birth defects, published in the New England Journal of Medicine
- Opioid EmergencyUS President Donald Trump declares opioid addiction a national emergency
- Landmark case against weed killer Roundup, San Francisco court awards groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson $289 million against Monsanto for causing him terminal cancer
- Global COVID-19 cases pass 20 million and are accelerating; the first 10 million take almost 6 months, while the second 10 million take just 43 days (Reuters)
- "I am Legend" screenwriter Akiva Goldsman tweets "It's a movie. I made that up. It's. Not. Real." amid rumors COVID-19 vaccines could turn people into zombies, as in the film
Born on this day
- Bernard NieuwentytDutch philosopher and physician, born in West-Graftdijk, North Holland (d. 1718)
- Almroth WrightEnglish bacteriologist (one of 1st vaccines for typhoid), born in Yorkshire England (d. 1947)
- Alfred DöblinGerman Modernist writer known for "Berlin Alexanderplatz", born in Stettin, Germany ,(d. 1957)
- Arthur PorrittNew Zealand athlete (Olympic bronze 100m 1924) and 11th governor-general of New Zealand 1967-72, born in Wanganui, New Zealand (d. 1994)
- Arne TiseliusSwedish chemist, 1948 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work on electrophoresis and adsorption analysis, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1971)
- Rosie WintertonEnglish nurse and politician, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
Died on this day
- Franz AepinusGerman physician and physicist, dies at 77
- Arthur BöttcherGerman pathologist and anatomist (born 1831)
- Ádám PolitzerHungarian-Austrian physician, dies at 84
- Aletta Jacobs1st Dutch female doctor and women's suffrage activist, dies at 75
- Aribert HeimAustrian SS physician (served at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Mauthausen, known as Dr. Death), dies at 78
- Endre CzeizelHungarian physician, geneticist, and academic (born 1935)
- Ruth PfauGerman nun and doctor known for treating leprosy patients in Pakistan, dies at 87
- Warren BrodeyCanadian psychiatrist and researcher known for his work on cybernetics, dies at 101