February 13 in Medical History
14 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- First appearance of cholera in London
- First US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris is performed in Cleveland
- 6-year-old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart and liver transplant
- Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients
- Canadian police arrest truckers who have protested a vaccine mandate for blocking Ambassador's Bridge, between Detroit and Windsor, for a week at the busiest land border crossing in North America
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is confirmed as Health and Human Services secretary by the US Senate, after concerns over his anti-vaccine views
Born on this day
- Hartmann SchedelGerman physician, humanist and historian, compiled "The Nuremburg Chronicle", born in Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1514)
- Étienne François GeoffroyFrench physician and chemist (1718 affinity table), born in Paris (d. 1731)
- John HunterScottish surgeon and founder of pathological anatomy in England, born in Long Calderwood, Scotland (d. 1793)
- Géza CsáthHungarian playwright and critic (died 1919)
- Don PanozAmerican pharmaceutical entrepreneur and motorsports impresario (ALMS - American Le Mans Series), born in Alliance, Ohio (d. 2018)
- Andrea ConteAmerican nurse, and First Lady of Tennessee (2003-11), born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Died on this day
- Werner HeydeGerman psychiatrist, one of the main organizers of Nazi Germany's T-4 Euthanasia Program, dies at 61
- Miles J. JonesAmerican pathologist and physician (born 1952)