July 26 in Medical History
18 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Heimlich Saves Mayor KochNew York Mayor Ed Koch is given the Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant
- Indian film star Amitabh Bachchan is seriously injured filming a fight scene for the movie "Coolie"
- Kuhn Suspends BlueBowie Kuhn announces pitcher Vida Blue is suspended for the rest of 1984 due to cocaine conviction
- Two new studies published in "Science" confirm COVID-19 most likely began in the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China
Born on this day
- Lorenz Christoph MizlerGerman physician, mathematician, and historian (died 1778)
- Philippe GaucherFrench dermatologist and academic (died 1918)
- Carl JungSwiss Psychiatrist (founded analytic psychology ), born in Kesswil, Switzerland (1875-1961)
- Dean BrooksAmerican physician and actor (died 2013)
- John KilgourBritish physician and director of prison medical services (Home Office), born in Aberdeen, Scotland (d. 2008)
- Jerzy EinhornPolish-Swedish doctor, cancer researcher (Karolinska University Hospital, 1967-92), politician (Member of Parliament, 1991-94), and Holocaust survivor, born in Częstochowa, Poland (d. 2000)
- Boris CyrulnikFrench doctor, born in Bordeaux, France
- Keith PetersWelsh physician, born in Baglan, Glamorgan
- Danny WoodburnAmerican comedian, disability rights advocate and actor (Seinfeld, Jingle All the Way), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died on this day
- John Friendphysician/politician, dies
- Friedrich Wilhelm WeisGerman physician and composer, dies at 82
- Sally Louisa TompkinsAmerican nurse and philanthrophist, only commissioned woman in US Confederate Army, dies at 82
- Maud MentenCanadian biochemist known for the Michaelis–Menten equation for enzyme kinetics, dies at 81
- J. Patrick VaughanBritish epidemiologist who consulted with Live Aid and the World Health Organization, dies at 87