February 1 in Medical History
17 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in US, incorporated
- 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
- Powell Increases Medical InsuranceBritish minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive
- MedicareBob Hawke 's Australian Labor government re-instates universal healthcare as Medicare
- WHO declares a global public health emergency over the rapid spread of zika-linked conditions
- The Indian government announces plan to give 500 million people free healthcare
- Ozzy Osbourne Cancels TourRock singer Ozzy Osbourne announces cancellation of upcoming concerts and his retirement from touring via social media due to health issues
Born on this day
- Agda MeyersonSwedish nurse and healthcare activist (died 1924)
- Erik Adolf von WillebrandFinnish physician (died 1949)
- Leila DenmarkAmerican pediatrician and author (died 2012)
- Richard Hooker [H. Richard Hornberger Jr.]American surgeon and author of M*A*S*H, born in Trenton, New Jersey (d. 1997)
Died on this day
- John FloyerEnglish physician and writer, dies at 84
- Alexander OgstonBritish surgeon (discovered Staphylococcus), educator, and military doctor, dies at 84
- Johan ScharffenbergNorwegian psychiatrist (born 1869)
- George WhippleAmerican scientist and Nobel Prize Laureate, dies at 97
- Jean HamburgerFrench physician and surgeon (born 1909)
- Patricia LindopBritish radiobiologist and physician, dies at 87