August 20 in Medical History
15 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- World Mosquito Day
Events
- Historic PublicationRudolf Virchow 's groundbreaking medical text "Cellular Pathology" is published in Berlin, establishing the basis for modern medical science
- Israel publishes its first medical journal "Ha-Refuah"
- Mother Teresa HospitalizedMother Teresa is hospitalized with malaria
- Measles cases reach a record high in Europe, with 41,000 infected in the first six months of 2018 and 37 deaths, according to the WHO
Born on this day
- Gerard KrausDutch psychiatrist and director Santpoort (Insanity in the Netherlands), born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1956)
- Tetsuzo AkutsuJapanese surgeon who built the first artificial heart, born in Japan (d. 2007)
- Vasily AksyonovSoviet-Russian novelist (The Burn), born in Kazan, Soviet Union (d. 2009)
- Ron PaulAmerican physician, author and politician (US Representative from Texas, 1975-77, 1979-85, 1997-2013; 3-time presidential candidate - 1988, 2008, 2012), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Felipe ContepomiArgentine rugby player and coach, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died on this day
- Paul EhrlichGerman bacteriologist and physician (Chemotherapy, Nobel Prize 1908), dies in 61
- Ivan JirkoCzech composer, music critic and psychiatrist, dies at 51
- Donald O. HebbCanadian psychologist and academic (born 1904)
- Berthold GrünfeldCzech-Norwegian psychiatrist, sexologist, and educator, dies at 75
- Narendra DabholkarIndian author and activist (born 1945)