August 25 in Medical History
12 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Japanese scientist Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet
- National Association of Colored Nurses forms in New York City, and Martha Minerva Franklin of Connecticut is elected president
- Butch Trucks, drummer of the Allman Brothers, breaks his leg in a car crash
Born on this day
- Emil Theodor KocherSwiss surgeon, Thyroid specialist (Nobel 1909), born in Bern, Switzerland (d. 1917)
- Charles RichetFrench physiologist and occultist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1935)
- H. Trendley DeanAmerican dental surgeon who introduced fluoridation into water, born in Winstanley Park, Illinois (d. 1962)
- Hans KrebsGerman-British doctor and research biochemist specializing in metabolic reactions (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1953), born in Hildesheim, Germany (d. 1981)
- Frederick RobbinsAmerican pediatrician and bacteriologist (Nobel 1954), born in Auburn, Alabama (d. 2003)
- Alice StollAmerican research physiologist and pioneer in aerospace medicine (fire-resistant fabrics), born on Long Island, New York (d. 2014)
Died on this day
- Friedrich Reinhold KreutzwaldEstonian physician and author (born 1803)
- Alfred KinseyAmerican entomologist and sexologist (Kinsey Report), dies from a heart ailment and pneumonia at 62
- Archibald "Moonlight" GrahamAmerican MLB baseball outfielder (New York Giants - 1 game, 1905), medical doctor, and subject of "Field of Dreams" film, dies at 88