February 7 in Medical History
19 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States)
Events
- A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
- Harrison's TonsilsBeatles guitarist George Harrison 's tonsils are removed
- David (born without immunity system) touches his mother for 1st time at age 12
- Borg's Suicide AttemptTennis superstar Björn Borg apparently attempts suicide in Milan, Italy
- American "Gomer Pyle" actor and singer Jim Nabors (63) undergoes a liver transplant
- First reports of poisonous homemade alcohol killing people in the Indian states of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, will go on to kill about 100
- Measles cases in Europe highest in a decade, tripling in a year to 82,596 according to WHO
- Measles outbreak declared in the Philippines with 1,813 cases and 26 deaths
Born on this day
- Gardner Quincy ColtonAmerican lecturer who was the first to use nitrous oxide as an anesthetic in dentistry, born in Georgia, Vermont (d. 1898)
- Alfred AdlerAustrian psychiatrist (Inferiority Complex), born in Penzing, Austria (1870-1937)
- Ulf von EulerSwedish physiologist famous for his work on neurotransmitters (Nobel 1970), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1983)
- Desmond DossAmerican soldier and 1st conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor who was the subject of the film Hacksaw Ridge, born in Lynchburg, Virginia (1919-2006)
- Tomisaku KawasakiJapanese pediatrician known for discovering Kawasaki disease (mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome), born in Tokyo, Japan (d. 2020)
Died on this day
- Dr. Josef MengeleGerman SS captain and chief camp physician at Auschwitz, known as the "Angel of Death", drowns of the coast of Brazil after suffering a stroke at 67
- Marshall RosenbergAmerican psychologist and author (born 1934)
- Hans RoslingSwedish physician, statistician and public speaker (The Best Stats You've Ever Seen), dies of cancer at 68
- Li WenliangChinese doctor who tried to raise the alarm over COVID-19, dies of COVID-19 in Wuhan at 34
- Jeane FreemanScottish health secretary during the COVID-19 pandemic (2018-21), dies at 72