July 13 in Medical History
13 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- The 1913 Romanian Army cholera outbreak during the Second Balkan War starts.
- Doctors operate and remove seven bone fragments from MLB Boston Red Sox player Ted Williams ' elbow following injury suffered two days earlier in the All-Star game
- Jockey Ron Turcotte (36) aboard Flag of Leyte Gulf, crashes during a race at Belmont Park, crushing several vertebrae and remaining paralyzed from the waist down until his death in 2025
- Reagan's Cancer SurgeryDoctors at Bethesda Naval hospital remove two small benign polyps from US President Ronald Reagan 's colon
- Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay record $4.7 billion in damages in talc cancer case by jury in US state of Missouri
- Kawhi Leonard undergoes surgery to repair a partial tear of the ACL in his right knee
Born on this day
- Arthur DeeEnglish physician, born in Mortlake, London (d. 1651)
- Arthur BöttcherGerman pathologist and anatomist (died 1889)
- Ken JeongAmerican actor, comedian, and physician
Died on this day
- Caspar Bartholin the ElderDanish physician, theologian, writer on anatomy, dies at 44
- Jean-Paul MaratFrench journalist and revolutionary (Friend of the People periodical), is murdered by Charlotte Corday in a bath at 50 (1743-1793)
- Jesse BennettAmerican physician who performed 1st successful US Caesarean (1794), dies at 72
- José María VargasVenezuelan doctor, botanist and 2nd President of Venezuela (1835-36), dies at 68