July 23 in Medical History
21 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Isolation of pituitary hormone is announced (Yale University)
- First successful liver transplant on 19-month-old Julie Rodriguez by Dr Starzl at the University of Colorado
- South African workers' union leader Billy Nair (60) is arrested on treason charges but is released after suffering a heart attack
- American dancer, actor, and director Gene Kelly suffers a mild stroke
- 250,000 doses of vaccines for children produced by a firm in China are faulty, according to reports in China
- Investigation launched after no girls born in three months in 132 villages in Uttarkashi district, India, with sex-selective abortions suspected as the reason
- South Africa records more than 400,000 COVID-19 cases amid surging infections and decides to shut schools for a month
- US confirmed cases of COVID-19 surpass 4 million with a death toll over 143,000; the real number of cases is likely up to 13 times higher according to the CDC
- Indonesia posts a record daily number of COVID-19 deaths at 1,566
- WHO declares monkeypox to be a public health emergency of international concern with 16,000 cases in 75 countries
Born on this day
- Abraham CollesIrish anatomist (died 1841)
- Franz BerwaldSwedish violinist, composer (Estrella de Soria; Sinfonie sérieuse), and orthopedist, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1868)
- Jonathan HutchinsonEnglish surgeon and scientist, born in Selby, Yorkshire, England (d. 1913)
- Louis T. WrightAmerican surgeon and civil rights activist (died 1952)
- Karl MenningerAmerican psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic), born in Topeka, Kansas (d. 1990)
- Benedict GroeschelAmerican priest, psychologist, and talk show host (died 2014)
Died on this day
- Carl Freiherr von RokitanskyBohemian-Austrian pathologist whose classification and explanation of diseases advanced clinical diagnoses, dies at 74
- John SimonBritish pathologist, public health officer, and 1st Chief Medical Officer (1855-76), dies at 87
- Henry Hallett Dalephysiologist (1938 Noble Prize for Medicine or Physiology for work on acetylcholine), dies at 93
- Charles E. Brady JrAmerican physician, Navy Captain and NASA astronaut (STS-78), commits suicide at 54
- Robin WarrenAustralian pathologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1937)