July 10 in Medical History
15 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Emperor Hadrian of Rome dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
- Sterilization OrderHimmler orders sterilization of all Jewish women in Ravensbrück concentration camp in northern Germany
- Douglas Leads Saskatchewan"Father of Medicare" Tommy Douglas becomes the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan
- Chemical factory in Seveso, near Milan, explodes covering the surrounding area in dioxin
- Prolific studio drummer Jim Gordon is convicted of murdering his mother and sentenced to 16 years in prison. Diagnosed with schizophrenia after the killing, he is serving time in a medical/psychiatric prison and has been denied parole 10 times as of 2018.
- The NIOSH air filtration ratings update with the enactment of 42 CFR 84, previously published in the Federal Register. The new regulation includes rules governing the new N95 respirator standard.
- In London, scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the "out of Africa theory" of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
- More than 61,000 people die in European heatwaves in 2022, according to study published in "Nature Medicine", suggesting world not doing enough to counter increasing heatwaves
Born on this day
- Jesse BennettAmerican physician who performed 1st successful US Caesarean (1794), born in Frankford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1842)
- Edith QuimbyAmerican medical researcher and physicist (died 1982)
- Wolfram SieversGerman Nazi physician (convicted of war crimes for atrocities while director of the SS), born in Hildesheim, Germany (d. 1948)
- Mahathir MohamadMalaysian physician and politician, 4th and 7th Prime Minister of Malaysia
- Janette ShermanAmerican physician, author, and pioneer in occupational and environmental health (died 2019)
- Vivek MurthyVice-Admiral and 19th US Surgeon General (2014-17), born in Hudderfield, UK
Died on this day
- Johann Fredericus GronoviusDutch physician and botanist, dies at 76