July 16 in Medical History
15 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Kissing is banned in England to stop the spread of the Black Death
- US Public Health Service forms, and US Marine Hospital is authorized
- Dr. Emily Stowe becomes the first woman licenced to practise medicine in Canada.
- First X-ray photo of arterial circulation in Rochester, NY
- CDC report on AIDS symptoms in three hemophiliacs
- 27 children are killed and 25 are hospitalized after eating lunch contaminated with insecticide in India
Born on this day
- Béla SchickHungarian-American paediatrician (Schick test), born in Balatonboglár, Hungary (d. 1967)
- Otmar Freiherr von VerschuerGerman human biologist and Nazi physician, born in Wildeck, German Empire (d. 1969)
- Alexander LuriaRussian neuropsychologist (Higher Cortical Functions in Man), born in Kazan, Russian Empire (d. 1977)
- Samuel Victor PerryEnglish biochemist and rugby player (died 2009)
- Frank JobeAmerican sergeant and surgeon (died 2014)
- Paul M. Ellwood Jr.American pediatric neurologist known as the "Father of the Health Maintenance Organization", born in San Francisco, California (d. 2022)
- Philip RandleBritish biochemist (Randle cycle), born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire (d. 2006)
Died on this day
- Victor HorsleyBritsh physician and neuroscientist, dies while serving in Iraq in WWI at 59
- M Vinksurgeon (1st Dutch kidney transplant), dies at 78