July 15 in Medical History
16 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Golgi ApparatusItalian biologist and pathologist Camillo Golgi discovers the Golgi apparatus, a network of membranes inside cells that modifies, sorts, and packages proteins and lipids
- In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
- British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect
- Penicillin DevelopmentHoward Florey and Norman Heatley present freeze-dried mold cultures of penicillin
- Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Britain
- Ray Davies announces his retirement from The Kinks, then attempts suicide; neither effort successful
- Producers bar Culture Club frontman Boy George from appearing on the British children's TV program "Saturday Superstore," saying his drug use makes him a bad influence on young viewers
- Pope’s Tumor SurgeryPope John Paul II is hospitalized for three weeks following surgery to remove a benign colon tumor
Born on this day
- Jean-Baptiste CharcotFrench physician and explorer (died 1936)
- Jean HamburgerFrench physician and surgeon (died 1992)
- Robert Bruce MerrifieldAmerican biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2006)
- Robert WinstonEnglish surgeon, academic, and politician
Died on this day
- William T. G. MortonAmerican dentist who first used ether as a surgical anaesthetic (HOF 1920), dies at 48
- Ilya MechnikovRussian zoologist and bacteriologist known as the "father of natural immunity" (Nobel 1908), dies of heart failure at 71
- Johon Mellanbyphysiologist, dies
- Eugen BleulerSwiss psychiatrist (introduced the term schizophrenia to describe the disorder previously known as dementia praecox), dies at 82