February 18 in Medical History
13 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Italy broadens abortion law
- Jeff Erlanger (10), a spinal tumor survivor and quadriplegic, appears on children's television program "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", discusses his disability and demonstrates his electric wheelchair
- Film & TV HistoryAnti-smoking ad airs for the first time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner ; he dies of smoking-induced lung cancer on October 10, 1985
- Two white separatists are arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological attack on NYC subways
Born on this day
- Francesco RediItalian physician (died 1697)
- Marshall HallEnglish physician, physiologist and early neurologist (physiology of reflex function), born in Basford, Nottinghamshire, England (d. 1857)
- Rebecca Lee CrumplerAmerican physician and medical writer (first African American woman to receive a medical degree), born in Delaware (d. 1895)
- Hans AspergerAustrian pediatrician and eponym of Asperger syndrome, born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1980)
- Mary AmdurAmerican toxicologist and public health researcher (died 1998)
- Princess Christina [Maria Christina]Dutch royal, singer, and dance therapist, born in Soestdijk Palace, Baarn, the Netherlands (d. 2019)
Died on this day
- Thabit ibn QurraArab astronomer and mathematician, founder of Statics (b. 826)
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von NettesheimGerman royal astrologer, physician and theologian, dies at 48
- Joseph Gilbert HamiltonAmerican Physician who was a pioneer of using radioactive isotopes in disease treatment and diagnosis, dies of radiation induced leukemia at 49 (1907-1957)