December 6 in Medical History
16 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- First recorded appendectomy performed by Claudius Amyand at St George's Hospital in London
- Adrian Kantrowitz performs the first human heart transplant in the United States.
- Michael Jackson collapses while rehearsing for an HBO special
- The United States Food and Drug Administration approves Saquinavir, the first protease inhibitor to treat HIV/AIDS. Within 2 years of its approval, annual deaths from AIDS in the United States fall from over 50,000 to approximately 18,000.
- American pin-up model Bettie Page (85) is hospitalized in critical condition after suffering a heart attack
- A 2-year old boy dies from Ebola in Meliandou, Guinea
- The discovery of the oldest-known plague sample, found in 4,900-year-old remains of a 20-year-old woman in Gökhem, southern Sweden, is published in "Cell"
- New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announces a COVID-19 mandate for all private employers effective December 27, to combat Omicron, 1st in the country
Born on this day
- Alfred James BroomhallBritish Protestant Christian medical missionary to China, born in Shandong, China (d. 1994)
- Bert Geoffrey AchongTrinidadian pathologist and inventor (electron microscopist), born in Port of Spain, Trinidad (d. 1996)
Died on this day
- Giovanni Battista MorgagniItalian anatomist regarded as the father of modern anatomical pathology, dies at 89
- Jean Pierre FlourensFrench physiologist, dies at 73
- Frantz FanonWest Indian psychiatrist and philosopher (The Wretched of the Earth), dies of leukemia at 36
- Carlos CamachoAmerican dentist, and politician (1st elected Governor of Guam, 1971-75), dies at 55
- Mimi SmithEnglish nurse (born 1906)
- Tabaré VázquezUruguayan politician and physician, President of Uruguay (2005-10, 2015-20), dies at 80