August 14 in Medical History
13 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- The first US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in New York City
- The Chemical Basis of MorphogenesisAlan Turing 's groundbreaking paper on mathematical biology “The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis” is published
- Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone suffers a fractured skull from a kick to the head in a fight over a woman in Queens, NYC, and undergoes brain surgery
- MLB pitcher Doc Gooden completes substance abuse rehabilitation at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California
- Most extensive face transplant surgery ever performed on Patrick Hardison by Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez at New York University Langone Medical Center
- Cholera infects more than 500,000 people in Yemen and kills over 2,000, according to the World Health Organization
- WHO declares mpox a public health emergency of international concern after it spreads from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to other countries, with 15,600 cases and 537 deaths
Born on this day
- Richard von Krafft-EbingAustro–German psychiatrist and author (Psychopathia Sexualis), born in Mannheim, Duchy of Baden, German Confederation (d. 1902)
- Doc HollidayAmerican dentist, gambler, and gunfighter (Gunfight at the O.K. Corral), born in Griffin, Georgia (1851-1887)
- Ernest Everett JustAfrican-American embryologist known for his pioneering work in the physiology of development, especially fertilization and cell division, born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 1941)
- Laurens van DeenenDutch biochemist, born in Maastricht, Germany (d. 1994)
Died on this day
- Johann Jakob ReiskeGerman scholar and physician, dies at 57
- Rebecca ColeAmerican physician and social reformer (born 1846)