August 22 in Medical History
22 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention, establishing the rules of protection of the victims of armed conflicts.
- Second Ebola death in Nigeria, Africa’s most populated country
- Discovery of a bone of a 90,000-year-old hybrid human, half Neanderthal, half Denisovan, from Anuy River, Siberia, is published in "Nature"
- Mexico's COVID-19 death toll surpasses 60,000, the world's third highest
- One of world's longest school closures ends in the Philippines as schools reopen for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic after only online learning
- Fauci Steps DownDr. Anthony Fauci announces he will step down as chief medical advisor to the US President and as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Born on this day
- Abraham CapadoseDutch physician and missionary, born in Amsterdam, Batatvian Republic (d. 1874)
- Alfred PloetzGerman physician, biologist, and eugenicist, born in Swinemünde, Prussia (d. 1940)
- Maximilian Bircher-BennerSwiss physician and nutritionist, born in Aarau, Switzerland (d. 1939)
- Alexander BogdanovRussian physician and philosopher, born in Sokółka, Poland (d. 1928)
- Ernest H. VolwilerAmerican scientist and co-inventor of Pentothal - world's most widely used anesthetic, born in Hamilton, Ohio (d. 1992)
- Cyril Astley ClarkeBritish physician and geneticist, born in Leicester, England (d. 2000)
- Arthur SacklerAmerican philanthropist, psychiatrist and patron of the arts, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1987)
- Denton CooleyAmerican heart surgeon (1st artificial heart transplant), born in Houston, Texas (d. 2016)
- Rob BuckmanBritish broadcaster and actor (Pink Medicine Show), born in London
Died on this day
- Franz Joseph GallGerman-French physician (phrenology), dies at 70
- Henry Radcliffe CrockerEnglish dermatologist and author (born 1846)
- Korbinian BrodmannGerman neurologist (b. 1868)
- Ida Henrietta HydeAmerican physiologist who invented the micro-electrode and the first woman allowed to do research at Harvard Medical School and to be elected to the American Physiology Society, dies at 87
- Gregory PincusAmerican biologist and inventor (birth control pill), dies at 64
- Juscelino KubitschekPresident of Brazil (1955-60), dies at 73
- Paul S. RussellAmerican transplant surgeon and founder of the Boston Interhospital Organ Bank (New England Donor Services), dies at 101