August 28 in Medical History
16 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- First use of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine to scan the human body at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Scotland
- National Centers for Disease Control announce a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men
- Investigation into German nurse Niels Högel, serving a life sentence for killing two patients, concludes he probably killed 86 more
- Puerto Rico raises the official death toll of the 2017 Hurricane Maria from 64 to 2,975
Born on this day
- Rhazes [Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī]Persian physician, philosopher, and writer, born in Ray, Persia (d. 925 or 935)
- William Alexander HammondAmerican military physician and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Annapolis, Maryland (d. 1900)
- Alexander Cameron SimScottish merchant, born in Aberlour, Scotland (d. 1900)
- George WhippleAmerican physician and biomedical researcher (Nobel-1934), born in Ashland, New Hampshire (d. 1976)
- Bruno BettelheimAustrian-American psycho-analyst (Uses of Enchantment), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1990)
- Godfrey HounsfieldBritish electrical engineer and inventor (CT scan, 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine), born in Newark, England (d. 2004)
- Frits BernardDutch clinical psychologist and child exploitation activist, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 2006)
- William J. RutterAmerican biochemist and co-founder of the Chiron Corporation, born in Malad City, Idaho (d. 2025)
- George ChurchAmerican geneticist and synthetic biologist, born in MacDill Air Force Base, Florida
Died on this day
- Charles Thomas JacksonAmerican physician and geologist, dies at 75
- Paolo MantegazzaItalian neurologist and anthropologist, dies at 78
- Saul MerinPolish-Israeli ophthalmologist and academic (born 1933)