January 7 in Medical History
16 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- 1st photo of genes taken at University of Southern California by Pease & Baker
- Mental health wing of Mercy Hospital burns, kills 41 in Davenport, Iowa
- Arizona called the COVID-19 "hotspot of the world" by local health officials as state suffers an average of 118.3 new cases per 100,000 people
- WHO warns Europe needs to do more to "flatten the steep vertical line" of COVID-19 cases and control the spread of the new variant, with 230 million already living under lockdown
- First successful transplant of a pig's heart into a human when genetically modified pig's heart inserted into a 53-year-old man in Baltimore, Maryland
Born on this day
- Bernhard AlbinusGerman-Dutch court-physician (Frederick of Prussia), born in Dessau (d. 1721)
- Herman MusaphDutch Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist and sexologist (NVSH), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1992)
- Irene VorrinkDutch politician (Minister of Health), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1996)
- Michele Elliottauthor, psychologist and founder of child protection charity Kidscape
- Rand PaulAmerican politician and physician
Died on this day
- Jean-Étienne GuettardFrench physician and scientist, 1st to map geological features of France, dies at 70
- Ernst Wilhelm von BrückeGerman physician and physiologist, dies at 72
- Dr Sophia Jex-BlakeEnglish physician, first practicing female doctor in Scotland, feminist, and teacher (established the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women), dies at 71
- Sophia Louisa Jex-BlakeEnglish physician and feminist who was one of the first female medical students at a British university, dies at 71
- George Washington CrileAmerican surgeon (conducted the first direct blood transfusion and studied the effects of surgical shock), dies at 78
- Robley D. EvansAmerican nuclear physicist (one of the founders nuclear Medicine), dies at 88