August 29 in Medical History
16 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Banana Spider venom is found to be effective in relieving erectile dysfunction
- Riots break out in Guinea following rumors that health workers are deliberately transmitting the Ebola virus to locals
- Senegal is the fifth country hit by Ebola
- Scientists announce there is no single "gay" gene, with genetics accounting for at most 25% of same-sex behavior in a study published in "Science"
- Pig-Brain ImplantElon Musk unveils a pig named Gertrude with a coin-sized computer in her brain as part of his Neuralink start-up creating a brain-to-machine interface
- Parasite worm, alive and wriggling, found in a woman's brain for the first time in Canberra, Australia
Born on this day
- John LockeEnglish empiricist philosopher ; influential Enlightenment thinker and "Father of Liberalism" (Two Treatises of Government), born in Wrington, England (1632-1704)
- Oliver Wendell HolmesSr., American physician and author (Old Ironsides), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 1894)
- Jivraj Narayan MehtaIndian physicians and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Gujarat (died 1978)
- Werner ForssmannGerman urologist (Nobel 1956), born in Berlin (d. 1979)
- Vivien ThomasAmerican surgeon and academic (died 1985)
- John CharnleyBritish orthopedic surgeon (died 1982)
Died on this day
- Félix GuattariFrench philosopher and theorist (born 1930)
- Arthur Ernest MourantBritish hematologist, dies at 90
- Wayne DyerAmerican psychologist and author (Your Erroneous Zones; Universe Within You), dies at 75
- Jacques RoggeBelgian sports administrator (8th President International Olympic Committee 2001-13), dies at 79