July 18 in Medical History
15 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- Christian feast day: — Camillus de Lellis (optional memorial, United States only)
Events
- First human test of a vaccine against cholera; Ukrainian bacteriologist Waldemar Haffkine risks his life by successfully testing it on himself
- MLB Kansas City Royals announce that manager Dick Howser, 50, has a brain tumor
- Amitabh Bachchan HospitalizedIndian actor Amitabh Bachchan and his son Abhishek are hospitalized with COVID-19 in Mumbai
Born on this day
- W. G. GraceEnglish cricket batsman and captain (22 Tests; 2 x 100, HS 170; 54,896 runs over record 44 FC seasons; Gloucestershire CCC), born in Bristol, England (1848-1915)
- Kadambini GangulyIndian physician, one of the first Indian women to obtain a degree (died 1923)
- Aaron BeckAmerican psychiatrist (father of cognitive behavioural therapy), born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 2021)
- Bernard PonsFrench politician and medical doctor (died 2022)
- Tenley AlbrightAmerican former figure skater and physician
Died on this day
- Oskar MinkowskiGerman physiologist and physician (pancreas and diabetes), dies at 73
- Corneille HeymansBelgian physiologist (Nobel 1938), dies at 76
- Karl MenningerAmerican psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic), dies at 96 of cancer
- Olivier AmeisenFrench-American cardiologist and academic (born 1953)
- Herbert NeedlemanAmerican pediatrician and researcher known for his work on the effects of lead poisoning in children, dies of lung failure at 89
- James R. UrbaniakAmerican orthopedic microsurgeon and expert in reattaching severed fingers, dies of complications of cancer at 90