July 17 in Medical History
15 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- 1st US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established
- Senate rejects medicare for aged
- Former South African President Nelson Mandela calls for commitment by the world to take action against AIDS
- Scientists solve mystery of sleeping sickness in two villages in northern Kazakhstan - uranium mining had caused increase in carbon monoxide
- World Health Organization declares the DR Congo Ebola outbreak a "public health emergency of international concern"
- India becomes the third country to record 1 million cases of COVID-19, 56% concentrated in Maharashtra, Delhi and Tamil Nadu
Born on this day
- Frank OlsonAmerican chemist and microbiologist (died 1953)
- Heinz LehmannGerman-Canadian psychiatrist and academic (died 1999)
- Chris CrutcherAmerican novelist and short story writer
Died on this day
- Dorothea DixAmerican pioneering nurse and social activist who created the first American mental asylums, dies at 85 (1802-1887)
- Josef HyrtlAustrian anatomist, dies at 83
- Eugene BotkinRussian court physician of Tsar Nicholas II, executed at 53
- Victims of the Shooting of the Romanov family:Victims of the Shooting of the Romanov family:
- Maud MentenCanadian physician and biochemist (born 1879)
- Raymond SacklerAmerican philanthropist, psychiatrist and president of Purdue Pharma the company that created OxyContin (1991-99), dies at 97