January 30 in Medical History
14 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Black Death Massacre: Jews (except pregnant women and children) are burnt to death on suspicion of poisoning the community during the Bubonic Plague, in Freiburg im Breisgau, Strasbourg; part of a wave of pogroms across Western Europe
- Laughter epidemic begins at a girls' mission school in Kashasha, Tanganyika, goes on to affect 14 schools and over 1000 people
- Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
- The World Health Organization declares COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern at a meeting in Geneva
Born on this day
- Max TheilerSouth African-American virologist who developed vaccine for Yellow Fever (Nobel Prize 1951), born in Pretoria (d. 1972)
- Alexander George OgstonBritish biochemist, and educator (professor at Australian National University, 1959-70; president of Trinity College - Oxford, 1970-78), born in Bombay, British India (d. 1996)
- Lucille Teasdale-CortiCanadian surgeon & international aid worker, born in Montréal, Québec (d. 1996)
- Peter AgreAmerican physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
Died on this day
- Joseph CarpueEnglish surgeon who pioneered early plastic surgery in England, dies at 81
- Johannes FibigerDanish physician (1926 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, whose research proved to be a mistake), dies at 60
- Manoel de AbreuBrazilian radiologist who developed chest photofluorography, dies at 68
- Joseph RansohoffAmerican neurosurgeon and pioneer in the modern neurosurgery, dies at 85
- Carl DjerassiAustrian-born American chemist and father of the contraceptive pill , dies at 91 (1923-2015)
- Stewart AdamsBritish pharmacologist (developed Ibuprofen), dies at 95