February 22 in Medical History
20 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Pope Formosus crowns Arnulf of Carinthia as Emperor in Rome. Arnulf suffers a stroke soon after and retreats from Italy.
- Finnish Ministry of Public Health installs sex education to thwart stress
- Scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland announce they have cloned an adult mammal, producing Dolly the sheep, born on 5 July 1996 (d. 2003)
- Musician Peter Frampton announces he has a degenerative muscular disease and his next tour will be his last
- 500,000 COVID DeathsUS death toll from COVID-19 passes 500,000, higher than US deaths in World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War combined. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris hold a candle-lighting ceremony outside the White House and say "we must not grow numb to the sorrow".
Born on this day
- Adolf KussmaulGerman physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease), born in Graben (d. 1902)
- Pieter Klazes PelDutch physician (Pel-Ebstein fever), born in Drachten, Smallingerland, Netherlands (d. 1919)
- Mary W. BachelerAmerican physician and Baptist medical missionary (died 1939)
- Renato DulbeccoItalian-born American virologist (1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for oncoviruses work), born in Catanzaro, Italy (d. 2012)
- J. Michael BishopAmerican immunologist and microbiologist known for his work on oncogenes (Nobel Prize 1989), born in York, Pennsylvania (d. 2026)
- James Philip BagianAmerican physician and NASA astronaut (STS 29, STS 40), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Bill FristAmerican politician, born in Nashville, Tennessee
- Charles CullenAmerican nurse and serial killer who inspired the true crime documentary "Capturing the Killer Nurse", born in West Orange, New Jersey
Died on this day
- Santorio SanctoriusVenetian physiologist and physician (invented thermometer), dies at 74
- Frederik RuyschDutch anatomist and botanist (developed techniques for preserving specimens), dies at 92
- Anna KingsfordEnglish physician and activist (born 1846)
- Thomas AllbuttBritish physiologist (Diseases of the Heart), dies at 88
- Christoph ProbstGerman medical student and anti-Nazi political activist, member of non-violent resistance group Weisse Rose (White Rose), executed by guillotine at 23
- Leo VromanDutch-American hematologist and poet, dies at 98
- Iris Cantor [née Bazel]American philanthropist, arts patron and healthcare advocate (Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation), dies at 95