February 24 in Medical History
24 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- The Governor-General of Korea establishes a clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate Hansen's disease patients.
- 1st US group hospital-medical cooperative authorized, Washington, D.C.
- Radio HistoryAmerican radio and television personality Larry King suffers a heart attack
- Event of InterestFidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba due to ill health after nearly fifty years in power
- At least 133 people have died and 200 treated in hospital after drinking toxic bootleg alcohol in Golaghat district, north-eastern India
- New York firefighter Daniel Foley, who found his brother's body in ruins of World Trade Center, dies of cancer bringing first responders death toll to 343
- United Nations-backed COVAX initiative begins delivering vaccines to middle and low income countries with first AstraZeneca shipment to Ghana
Born on this day
- Bernard Siegfried Albinus [Weiss]German surgeon and anatomist (1st to link vascular system with the fetus), born in Frankfurt (d. 1770)
- John McKinlyAmerican physician. politician and 1st President of Delaware (1777), born in Ulster, Ireland (d. 1796)
- Irmgard BartenieffGerman-American dancer and physical therapist, leading pioneer of dance therapy (died 1981)
- Eric BoylandEnglish biochemist (Cancer research), born in Manchester (d. 2002)
- Judah FolkmanAmerican pediatric surgeon and cancer researcher (angiogenesis), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2008)
- Carol D'OnofrioAmerican public health researcher (died 2020)
- Katie AllenAustralian politician and medical researcher
Died on this day
- Johann WeyerDutch physician and occultist
- Thomas BowdlerBritish physician and writer (Family Shakespeare), dies at 70 (1754-1825)
- Sake Dean MahomedIndian traveler, opened 1st Indian restaurant in the UK, Shampooing Surgeon to George VI, dies at 91 or 92
- Jan Pieter HeijeDutch physician, writer and poet, dies at 67
- Pierre JanetFrench psychologist and neurologist (contributed to the modern concept of mental and emotional disorders involving anxiety, phobias, and other abnormal behaviour), dies at 87
- Tommy DouglasCanadian politician and "Father of Medicare", dies of cancer at 81 (1904-1986)
- Oliver WrongEnglish nephrologist and academic (born 1925)
- George C. NichopoulosAmerican soldier and physician (born 1927)
- Faye Glenn AbdellahAmerican pioneer in nursing research and US government official (health services), dies at 97
- Alvin F. PoussaintAmerican psychiatrist, cultural figure and writer (Why Blacks Kill Blacks, Lay My Burden Down), dies at 90