August 9 in Medical History
15 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Bush Supports Stem Cell ResearchUS President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells
- Nepal's parliament bans menstruation huts, coming into effect in August 2018
- Argentina's Senate rejects a bill to legalize abortion in the first 14 weeks
- Brazil surpasses 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, the world's second highest, with over 3 million recorded cases
- New Zealand reaches 100 days without community transmission of COVID-19
- Cholera outbreak in Nigeria has killed more than 800 people with 31,425 suspected cases since January 2021, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control
- A trainee female doctor is raped and murdered in a Kolkata hospital, sparking huge outrage and protests over sexual violence against women in India
Born on this day
- William T. G. MortonAmerican dentist who first used ether as a surgical anaesthetic (HOF 1920), born in Charlton, Massachusetts (d. 1868)
- Evelina HaverfieldScottish nurse and activist (died 1920)
- Jean PiagetSwiss pioneer developmental psychologist and zoologist, born in Neuchâtel, Switzerxland (d. 1980)
- James B. MaasAmerican social psychologist and sleep expert (Power Sleep), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2025)
- Jonathan KellermanAmerican writer (Alex Delaware novels), born in New York City
Died on this day
- Gardner Quincy ColtonAmerican lecturer who was the first to use nitrous oxide as an anesthetic in dentistry, dies at 84
- Carl ClaubergGerman Nazi doctor (gynecologist, specializing in mass sterilization and other experiments on humans at Auschwitz concentration camp), dies at 58
- Tetsuzo AkutsuJapanese surgeon who built the first artificial heart, dies at 84