February 19 in Medical History
13 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Typhoid Mary FreedTyphoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first periods of forced isolation and goes on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area
- Medical diathermy machine 1st used in Schenectady, NY
- William Schroeder is the first artificial heart patient to leave the hospital, spending 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky
Born on this day
- Carolus Clusius [Charles de L'Ecluse]Artois botanist, developed the tulip, potato, and chestnut for cultivation, born in Arras, County of Artois (d. 1609)
- Friedrich HoffmannGerman physician and chemist, first to investigate carbon monoxide poisoning, born in Halle, Archbishopric of Magdeburg (d. 1742)
- Carl Freiherr von RokitanskyBohemian-Austrian pathologist whose classification and explanation of diseases advanced clinical diagnoses, born in Königgrätz, Bohemia (d. 1878)
- Evert GorterDutch children's pioneering paediatrician (founder of Dutch medical child care), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1954)
- Joseph P. KerwinAmerican Capt Med Corps USN/astro (Skylab 2), born in Oak Park, Illinois
- Cyrus ChothiaEnglish biochemist and emeritus scientist at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (died 2019)
- Tim HuntBritish biochemist, (Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for discovery of protein molecules), born in Neston, England
- Jennifer DoudnaAmerican biochemist (2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for CRISPR Gene Editing), born in Washington D.C.
Died on this day
- Georgios PapanicolaouGreek-American doctor, cytopathologist, and inventor of the Pap smear, dies at 78 (1883-1962)
- André F. CournandFrench physician and physiologist (Nobel 1956), dies at 92