July 19 in Medical History
26 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- The British Medical Association is founded as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Sir Charles Hastings at a meeting in the Board Room of the Worcester Infirmary.
- Dutch Red Cross forms
- Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick children, makes trial trip, NYC
- Dr Roy P Scholz is 1st surgeon to use fiberglass sutures
- Patricia Harris becomes sect of HEW
- The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published
- World Health Organization puts world's Ebola death toll at 11,284
- DNA Solves 41 Year MysteryInvestigators using DNA identify 16-year-old James Byron Haakenson as a victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy , 41 years after his disappearance
- McCain DiagnosedUS Senator John McCain diagnosed with brain cancer
- Heat wave begins across the east of America affecting 100 million people and killing 6, with New York city declaring a state of emergency
- 25 Million Iranians InfectedIran’s President Hassan Rouhani says 25 million Iranians already infected with COVID-19, 35 million at risk (official figure just 269,440)
- UK lifts most COVID-19 restrictions on so-called "Freedom Day" despite 50,000 new daily infections
Born on this day
- Mary Ann BickerdykeAmerican army nurse (union), born in Knox County, Ohio (d. 1901)
- Cornelis Adrianus PekelharingDutch physician, physiologist, and academic, born in Zaandam, Netherlands (d. 1922)
- Charles Horace MayoAmerican surgeon and co-founder (Mayo Clinic), born in Rochester, Minnesota (d. 1939)
- Friedrich DessauerGerman physicist (radiologist), born in Aschaffenburg, Germany (d. 1963)
- Enno LollingGerman physician (died 1945)
- A. J. CroninScottish writer (Citadel, Shining Victory), born in Cardross (d. 1981)
- Balai Chand MukhopadhyayIndian physician, author, poet, and playwright (died 1979)
- Rosalyn YalowAmerican medical physicist (Nobel 1977), born in New York City (d. 2011)
- Rachel RobinsonAmerican social activist and humanitarian (The Jackie Robinson Foundation), born in Los Angeles, California
- David ColquhounEnglish pharmacologist and academic
Died on this day
- Pran Nath ChhuttaniIndian physician and teacher, dies at 81
- Alain BombardFrench biologist, physician, and politician who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat to test his theory that a shipwrecked person could survive without provisions, dies at 80
- Paul M. FleissAmerican controversial pediatrician and father of Heidi Fleiss, dies at 90
- Rubem AlvesBrazilian theologian (born 1933)