February 10 in Medical History
16 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf. Schaaf dies four days later.
- Perrier Water pulls product from shelf due to benzine in water
- Olympic figure skater Peggy Fleming undergoes breast cancer surgery
- The traditional Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is canceled for the first time because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Born on this day
- Johann Fredericus GronoviusDutch physician and botanist, born in Hamburg (d. 1762)
- Benjamin Smith BartonAmerican botanist and physician (died 1815)
- Julius von SzymanowskiRussian surgeon of Polish-German origin (died 1868)
- John Franklin EndersAmerican microbiologist (1954 Nobel in Physiology or Medicine for culturing poliovirus, developed measles vaccine), born in West Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1985)
- Waldemar HovenGerman Nazi physician, convicted of war crimes for experimenting on concentration camp inmates at Buchenwald, born in Feiburg, Germany (d. 1948)
- Alex ComfortBritish physician, pacifist and author (The Joy of Sex), born in London (d. 2000)
- Anne AndersonScottish physiologist and academic (died 1983)
Died on this day
- Claude BernardFrench physiologist involved in the founding of modern physiology (blind experiments), dies at 64
- Joseph ListerBritish surgeon (pioneer of antiseptic surgery ), dies at 84 (1827-1912)
- Henry Drysdale DakinEnglish biochemist known for the Dakin-West reaction, dies at 71
- Fred HollowsNew Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
- Norman E. ShumwayAmerican pioneer cardiac transplant surgeon (1st US adult human to human heart transplantation), dies at 83