February 2 in Medical History
19 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization
- Dogsleds reach Nome with emergency diphtheria serum after 1000-km
- Hogan InjuredAmerican golfing champ Ben Hogan seriously injured in an auto accident
- Daniel Baldwin hospitalized in NYC for cocaine overdose
- Cold snap across Europe kills more than 100 people (over 400 people by 08-02)
- First case of Zika contracted on US mainland (Texas) and second known sexually transmitted case confirmed in Texas
- Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine deemed 91.6% effective according to analysis published in "The Lancet"
Born on this day
- François-Alphonse ForelSwiss physician, scientist, and founder of limnology, the study of lakes, born in Morges, Switzerland (d. 1912)
- Havelock EllisBritish physician and social reformer who studied sexual behaviour (Psychology of Sex), born in Croydon, England (d. 1939)
- Cornelius McKaneAmerican physician, educator, and hospital founder (died 1912)
- Alexander AtabekianArmenian physician and anarchist publisher (died 1933)
- Clem WindsorAustralian rugby player and surgeon (died 2007)
- Norma Meras SwensonAmerican women's health activist and co-author of "Our Bodies, Ourselves", born in Exeter, New Hampshire (d. 2025)
- Joy SchaverienBritish psychoanalyst and author (Boarding School Syndrome), born in Hampstead, England (d. 2025)
Died on this day
- Martin ListerEnglish naturalist and physician to Queen Anne, dies at 72
- Antonio Maria ValsalvaItalian anatomist (anatomy of the ear), dies at 66
- William H. SteinAmerican biochemist (Nobel 1972), dies at 68
- Marie Van Brittan BrownAmerican nurse and co-inventor of the home security system with her husband Albert L. Brown, dies at 76
- Joshua LederbergAmerican molecular biologist and winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, dies at 82