February 6 in Medical History
19 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (United Nations)
Events
- 1st appearance of cholera in Edinburgh, Scotland
- First old-age home opens in Prescott, Arizona
- No-smoking rules take effect in US federal buildings
- Strawberry SuspendedMLB outfielder Darryl Strawberry suspended from baseball for 60 days for positive cocaine test
- Diane Blood, 32, in England, won right to use her dead husband's sperm
- Date of the 1st COVID-19 related death in the US (confirmed by the CDC April 21)
- Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson declares a state of emergency over a trucker protest against a covid vaccination mandate on the US-Canada border
Born on this day
- Patrick RussellScottish surgeon and zoologist (died 1805)
- Pierre-Joseph DesaultFrench anatomist & surgeon, born in Vouhenans, France (d. 1795)
- Edwin KlebsGerman physician and bacteriologist (bacterial theory of infection, diphtheria bacillus), born in Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1913)
- Eduard HitzigGerman neurologist and psychiatrist (died 1907)
- William Parry MurphyAmerican physician and Nobel laureate, born in Wisconsin (d. 1987)
- Colin MurdochNew Zealand pharmacist and veterinarian, invented the tranquilliser gun (died 2008)
Died on this day
- Prospero AlpiniItalian botanist and physician (De Plantis Aegypti liber) known for his study of date palms, dies at 63
- Isla van DiestBelgian physician, 1st female doctor and 1st female university graduate in Belgium, dies at 73
- Salvador LuriaItalian-American microbiologist (Nobel Prize 1969), dies at 78
- David RosenhanAmerican psychologist and academic (born 1929)
- Anthony EpsteinEnglish pathologist and virologist (co-discover of the Epstein–Barr virus), dies at 102