January 17 in Medical History
19 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- First Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens her practice
- Antoni van Leeuwenhoek 's Hospital in Amsterdam opens
- Actress Elizabeth Taylor released from the hospital after hip treatment
- Royals Receive TreatmentUK royal palace announces Catherine, Princess of Wales is hospitalized for abdominal surgery and King Charles III is receiving prostate treatment
Born on this day
- Leonhard FuchsGerman physician and botanist (Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants) for which the flowering plants and color Fuchsia is named after, born in Wemding, Bavaria (d. 1566)
- Gaspard BauhinSwiss botanist who published some of the first works of systemic botany, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1624)
- Robert FluddBritish physician, author, and mystical philosopher, baptized in Bearsted, Kent, England (d. 1637)
- Antonio Maria ValsalvaItalian anatomist and physician (died 1723)
- Ola RaknesNorwegian psychoanalyst and philologist, born in Bergen, Norway (d. 1975)
- Marcel PetiotFrench serial killer known as 'Doctor Satan' who murdered Jews for money during WWII, born in Auxerre, France (d. 1946)
- Thomas Anthony DooleyAmerican humanitarian in Vietnam and Laos, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1961)
- Tabaré VázquezUruguayan politician and physician, President of Uruguay (2005-10, 2015-20), born in Montevideo, Uruguay (d. 2020)
- Katalin KarikoHungarian-American biochemist (2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for mRNA vaccine technology), born in Szolnok, Hungary
Died on this day
- Giovanni AldiniItalian physicist, dies at 71
- Francis GaltonBritish anthropologist and geneticist (eugenics), dies at 88
- Sylvia LawlerEnglish geneticist (born 1922)
- Albert SchatzAmerican microbiologist (b. 1920)
- Pierre GrondinCanadian pioneering cardiac surgeon, performed 1st heart transplant in Canada, dies at 80
- Oliver BraddickBritish developmental psychologist who researched infant visual perception, dies at 77