August 3 in Medical History
13 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- The American Dental Association is founded in Niagara Falls, New York.
- United States Senate hearing on Project MKULTRA
- Number of Iranian COVID-19 deaths is triple that of government tally, showing 42,000 have died instead of 14,405, according to BBC Persian Service investigation
- Cells of recently deceased pigs are brought back to life by researchers at Yale University, with significant implications for organ transplants and stroke sufferers, as well as ethical questions over the definition of death
Born on this day
- Wilson Cary SwannAmerican physician, philanthropist, social reformer, and namesake of landmark fountain in Philadelphia's Logan Square, born in Alexandria, District of Columbia (now Virginia) (d. 1876)
- Lewis RowlandAmerican neurologist (died 2017)
- Michael ArthurEnglish physician and academic
Died on this day
- Konstantin KonikEstonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (born 1873)
- Signe SalénSwedish doctor (born 1871)
- Andreas EmbirikosGreek surrealist poet known for "The Great Eastern", photographer, and critic, dies at 73
- Ted StanleyAmerican anesthesiologist and medical entrepreneur (created the fentanyl lollipop), dies at 77
- Raymond DamadianAmerican physician and inventor of the MRI scanning machine, dies at 86
- Sue Bender [Marjorie Sue Rosenfeld]American family therapist and author (Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish), dies of acute pulmonary collapse at 91