July 14 in Medical History
17 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- Christian feast day: — Camillus of Lellis (Roman Catholic Church, except in the United States)
Events
- First public demonstration of ice made via refrigeration by Florida physician John Gorrie
- Germany begins mandatory sterilization of people with hereditary illnesses
- Common Sense Book of Baby & Child CareDr. Benjamin Spock 's "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" is published
- Fire rages through a Guatemala City insane asylum killing 225 and severely injuring 300
- Young Lords activists take over Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, New York
- American stage and screen actress Nell Carter (43) undergoes successful brain surgery to repair two aneurysms
- The death toll from the West African Ebola outbreak passes 500
- First Ebola case on Goma, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, city of one million, as toll of outbreak reaches 1600 victims
- Drug overdose deaths in the US rose by 30% to a record 93,000 in 2020, according to the CDC
- American billionaire Alice Walton opens the Alice L. Walton School of Medicine in Arkansas, United States, and covers tuition for the first five graduating classes
Born on this day
- Johannes Peter MüllerGerman physiologist, made first distinction between motor and sensory nerves, born in Coblenz, First French Repu (d. 1858)
- René FavaloroArgentine surgeon and cardiologist (died 2000)
- Joan Tisch [née Hyman]American billionaire, philanthropist and volunteer with the Gay Men's Health Crisis, born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2017)
- Navin RamgoolamMauritius politician (Labour Party), Prime Minister of Mauritius (1995-2000, 2005-14, 2024-), born in Port Louis, British Mauritius
- Lois CurtisAmerican artist, disability rights advocate and lead plaintiff in Olmstead v. L.C (1999), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 2022)
Died on this day
- Cicely SaundersEnglish Nurse , physician and writer who founded the first modern hospice, dies of cancer at 87 (1918-2005)