February 5 in Medical History
17 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- George Made Prince RegentPrince George, Prince of Wales, later George IV, is appointed as Prince-Regent after his father King George III is recognized as insane due to mental illness
- In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, initially with four basic specialties.
- Gandhi ReleasedMahatma Gandhi is released from Yerwada Prison in Pune, British India, on health grounds after a bout of appendicitis
- Assisted Suicide BarredMichigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides
- Brazil warns it is expecting a very bad year of dengue fever with over 4.2 million cases - with Rio de Janeiro already declaring a public health emergency
- Charles Diagnosed with CancerKing Charles III diagnosed with cancer according to Buckingham Place, Queen Camilla takes on his public duties while he receives treatment
Born on this day
- John JeffriesAmerican physician and meteorologist (1st balloon flight across English Channel), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1819)
- Alan Lloyd HodgkinBritish biophysicist (Nobel 1963), born in Banbury (d. 1998)
- James E. BowmanAmerican physician and academic (died 2011)
- Mary Joan NielubowiczUS Navy Rear Admiral and nurse (Director of the Navy Nurse Corps, 1983-87), born on Shenandoah, Pennsylvania (d. 2008)
Died on this day
- William CullenScottish physician and chemist, dies at 79
- Lou Andreas-SaloméRussian-German author (Im Kampf um Gott), dies of uremia at 75
- Sami Ibrahim HaddadLebanese surgeon (b. 1890)
- Neil AggettSouth African worker's union leader, commits suicide
- Miguel Rolando CovianBrazilian physiologist (b. 1913)
- Michalina WisłockaPolish gynecologist and sexologist (born 1921)
- Stanley CohenAmerican biochemist known for his work on cell growth and Nobel Prize winner (1986), dies at 97