January 10 in Medical History
22 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Ukrainian bacteriologist Wademar Haffkine performs the first human trial for a vaccine for the plague on himself during the Bombay epidemic
- The New England Journal of Medicine publishes the letter Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics, which is later misused to downplay the general risk of addiction to opioids.
- NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
- Dow Corning provides $295 billion to settle breast implant suits
- 72 people are killed & 169 hospitalized after a mass poisoning of beer with crocodile bile at a funeral in Mozambique
- America records more than 3,000 deaths a day for the first time reaching 3,249, passing 375,000 deaths in total a day later
- US reports 1.34 million new COVID-19 infections, a global record, with Omicron variant accounting for an estimated 95% of cases
Born on this day
- George BirkbeckEnglish physician and academic, founded Birkbeck, University of London (died 1841)
- Martin LichtensteinGerman physician and explorer (died 1857)
- Amanda CajanderFinnish medical reformer (died 1871)
- Della H. RaneyAmerican Army Air Corps officer (died 1987)
- Sune BergströmSwedish biochemist and Nobel laureate, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 2004)
- Earl BakkenAmerican inventor (died 2018)
- Gunther von Hagens [Gunther Gerhard Liebchen]German anatomist who invented the plastination technique for preserving tissue specimens (Body Worlds), born in Alt-Skalden, Nazi Germany (d. 2026)
- Deborah BoneEnglish mental health nurse who was the inspiration for the song "Disco 2000" by Jarvis Cocker, born in Sheffield, England (d. 2014)
- Khairy JamaluddinMalaysian politician, Malaysian Minister of Health
Died on this day
- Nicholas CulpeperEnglish botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer (b. 1616)
- Carl LinnaeusSwedish botanist , explorer and the Father of Taxonomy, dies at 70 (1707-1778)
- Samuel MuddAmerican physician (imprisoned for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth), dies of pneumonia at 49
- Laza LazarevićSerbian writer (Prvi put s ocem na jutrenje) and psychiatrist, dies at 39
- Donald AchesonIrish physician and Chief Medical Officer for England (1983-90), dies at 83
- Oliver SmithiesBritish biochemist (2007 Noble Prize for gene targeting), dies at 91