January 14 in Medical History
25 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Spanish King Philip V abdicates the throne in favor of his 17-year-old son Louis I; he returns to rule in September after Louis dies of smallpox
- Dr. Jesse Bennett performs the first successful cesarean section in the United States on his wife, Elizabeth, delivering a baby girl at their home in Edom, Virginia
- Heir to the Throne Passes AwayBritish Prince Albert Victor, oldest son of the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII ) dies during a pandemic, his brother eventually becomes George V
- National Society for Legalization of Euthanasia forms (NY)
- The Bell Jar"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath is published by Heinemann in the UK, the author commits suicide a month later
- New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments
- 29-year-old French woman Marie Claude Adam gives birth to sextuplets in Paris
- Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis)
- Americans chance of dying from an accidental opioid overdose higher than a car accident for the first time, according to US National Safety Council
- Brazilian governor of Amazonas state Wilson Lima says their COVID-19 surge is now as bad as April 2020, with hospitals running out of oxygen and patients ventilated manually
- Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder charged and pleads not guilty to two counts of willful neglect of duty over the Flint water scandal that killed 12 people
- Popes Receive Covid Vaccine84-year-old Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI receive their first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine
Born on this day
- Johannes Josephus ViottaDutch physician and composer, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1859)
- Albert SchweitzerAlsatian theologian and writer (Nobel 1954), born in Kayserberg, France (d. 1965)
- Victor SegalenFrench naval doctor and writer, born in Brest, France (d. 1919)
- Ecaterina TeodoroiuRomanian soldier and nurse (died 1917)
- Sophie RedmondSuriname's 1st female physician, born in Paramaribo, Suriname (d. 1955)
- John MallardEnglish medical physicist (developed MRI and PET scans), born in Northampton, England (d. 2021)
- Hans KornbergGerman-English biologist and academic (died 2019)
- Shannon LucidChinese astronaut (STS 51G, 34, 43, 58, 76/79), born in Shanghai, China
Died on this day
- Jacques DuboisFrench anatomist (born 1478)
- Ioan CantacuzinoRomanian physician and bacteriologist (born 1863)
- Harry Stack SullivanAmerican psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (born 1892)
- Federica MontsenySpanish anarchist and government Minister of Health (1936), dies at 80
- Judah FolkmanAmerican pediatric surgeon and cancer researcher (angiogenesis), dies of a heart attack at 74