February 25 in Medical History
20 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- US Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation
- British super middleweight Nigel Benn puts opponent Gerard McClellan in hospital
- Film & TV HistorySeth Rogen and Lauren Miller are honoured by unite4:humanity for their work promoting awareness of and fundraising for Alzheimer's research
- Iran emerges as a new COVID-19 hotspot, recording 95 cases and 11 deaths as a deputy health minister that appeared on TV confirmed as also infected
Born on this day
- Giovanni Battista MorgagniItalian anatomist regarded as the father of modern anatomical pathology, born in Forli, Italy (d. 1771)
- Simon StijlFrisian physician and writer, born in Harlingen (d. 1804)
- Phoebus LeveneRussian-American biochemist and physician (died 1940)
- William AstburyEnglish physicist and chemist (pioneer in molecular biology), born in Longton, England (d. 1961)
- Frank G. Slaughter [C.V. Terry]American novelist and physician (Sangaree), born in Washington D.C. (d. 2001)
- Mary Locke PetermannAmerican cellular biochemist (died 1975)
- Karl H. Pribram “Magellan of the Mind”Austrian-American neuroscientist, psychologist and philosopher (research into brain’s limbic system), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2015)
- Thomas FogartyAmerican cardiovascular surgeon and the inventor of the ballon embolectomy catheter, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 2025)
- Zelig EshharIsraeli cancer researcher and immunologist known for his work on T-cells, born in Petah Tikva, British Mandate of Palestine (d. 2025)
Died on this day
- Santorio SantorioItalian biologist (born 1561)
- George MinotAmerican physician (Nobel 1934 - introduction of a raw-liver diet in the treatment of pernicious anemia), dies at 64
- Baruch GoldsteinAmerican-Israli physician and mass murderer (at least 55 dead in shooting at Hebron Ibrahimi Mosque), lynched at 42
- Haing S NgorCambodian-American obstetrician, author, refugee and actor (The Killing Fields), murdered at 55
- İhsan DoğramacıTurkish paediatrician, academic and the founder of YÖK, dies at 94
- C Everett KoopAmerican pediatric surgeon, health administrator and 13th US Surgeon General (1982-89), dies at 96
- Janet Asimov (née Janet Opal Jeppson)American science fiction writer (The Second Experiment; The Norby Chronicles), and psychoanalyst, dies at 92