December 25 in Medical History
20 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Physician Ephraim McDowell performs the first abdominal surgery in the U.S, an ovariotomy to remove a 22 lb ovarian tumor
- Gein Not GuiltyAmerican Ed Gein found not guilty by reason of insanity for a series of murders in Plainsfield, Wisconsin
Born on this day
- Archibald PitcairneScottish physician and poet, born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1713)
- Johann Jakob ReiskeGerman scholar and physician, born in Zörbig, Saxony (d. 1774)
- Philip MazzeiItalian physician, philosopher, and friend of Thomas Jefferson, born in Poggio a Caiano, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (d. 1816)
- Filippo MazzeiItalian-American physician and philosopher (died 1816)
- Clara BartonAmerican nurse and founder of the American Red Cross, born in North Oxford, Massachusetts (1821-1912)
- Marie KroghDanish physician (co-founder of Novo Nordisk), born in Vosegaard, Denmark (1874-1943)
- Paul DavidFrench Canadian cardiologist and founder of the Montreal Heart Institute, born in Montreal (d. 1999)
- Kenneth CalmanScottish physician and academic
- David RathCzech physician and politician
- Pardis SabetiIranian-American biologist and geneticist, born in Tehran, Iran
Died on this day
- Hayrullah EfendiOttoman physician, historian, and official (born 1818)
- Karl AbrahamGerman psychoanalyst, dies at 48
- Otto Loewirecipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
- Monica DickensEnglish/American journalist/author, dies at 77
- Chang Kee-ryoKorean surgeon (born 1914)
- Mary LyonEnglish geneticist (X-chromosome inactivation), dies at 89
- Robert L. SpitzerAmerican psychiatrist known for his work on DSM-Ⅲ and his efforts to destigmatize homosexuality, dies of complications of heart disease at 83
- Sulagitti NarasammaIndian midwife (born 1920)