February 14 in Medical History
13 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children, the first hospital in England to provide in-patient beds specifically for children, is founded in London.
- Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some
- Authorities in the United States announce that Eric Robert Rudolph is a suspect in an Alabama abortion clinic bombing
- Guinea declares an Ebola epidemic after three deaths, its first deaths since 2016
- Pope Francis HospitalizedPope Francis is admitted to hospital in Rome with a respiratory tract infection, that later develops into pneumonia
Born on this day
- Anna Howard ShawAmerican suffragette , born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England (1847-1919)
- Hadley WilliamsCanadian surgeon and educator (died 1932)
- Willem J. KolffDutch-American Physician and Biomedical Engineer (artificial kidney, hemodialysis), born in Leiden, Netherlands (d. 2009)
- Iris Cantor [née Bazel]American philanthropist, arts patron and healthcare advocate (Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2026)
- J. Michael LaneAmerican epidemiologist and the final director of the smallpox eradication bureau at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2020)
- Donna ShalalaAmerican educator and politician, US Secretary of Health under Bill Clinton (Rep-Florida 2019-21), born in Cleveland, Ohio
- Kim Geun-taSouth Korean pro-democracy activist, torture victim and Minister of Health and Welfare (2004-06), born in Bucheon, South Korea (d. 2011)
Died on this day
- Cosme ArgerichArgentine physician and founder of the Medicine School of Buenos Aires, dies at 61