February 26 in Medical History
21 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- New York Legislature forms NYC Metropolitan Board of Health
- First female US Navy captain, Sue Dauser of the Nurse Corps, appointed
- 1st televised kidney transplant (Today Show)
- Irish Supreme Court rules 14-year-old rape victim may get an abortion
- Film & TV HistorySeth Rogen testifies about Alzheimer's disease before the United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services
- Saudi Arabia bars overseas pilgrims from accessing religious sites of Mecca and Medina because of COVID-19 fears for 1st time in living memory
- First death from measles in the US occurs in Texas in a decade, and the first child to die in 22 years amid an outbreak affecting 124 people
Born on this day
- John Harvey KelloggAmerican surgeon and nutritionist, inspired flaked cereal industry, born in Tyrone, Michigan (d. 1943)
- Emile CouéFrench pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion), born in Troyes, France (d. 1926)
- Vladimir SerbskyRussian psychiatrist, professor, and writer (The Forensic Psychopathology), born in Bogorodsk, Russian Empire (d. 1917)
- Lionel LogueAustralian speech therapist who treated King George VI (The Kings Speech), born in Adelaide (d. 1953)
- John BowlbyBritish psychologist, born in London, England (d. 1990)
- Pran Nath ChhuttaniIndian physician and teacher, born in Leiah, Pakistan (d. 1996)
- Otis BowenAmerican politician, US Sec of Health & Human Services (1985-89), born in near Rochester, Indiana (d. 2013)
- William PollackBritish medical researcher who helped develop the Rh disease vaccine (RhoGAM), born in London (d. 2013)
- Ahn Cheol-sooSouth Korean physician, academic, and politician
- Garry ConilleHaitian physician and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Haiti
Died on this day
- (Yamuna) Anandibai Gopal JoshiHindu Indian medical doctor, the first Indian female educated in western medicine in the US, dies of tuberculosis at 21
- Karl JaspersGerman psychiatrist and philosopher, dies at 86
- Daniel John CunninghamBritish physiologist (human breathing control), dies at 76
- John MallardEnglish medical physicist (developed MRI and PET scans), dies at 94