July 27 in Medical History
24 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- Christian feast day: — Pantaleon
- Medical Workers Day (Ukraine)
Events
- Founding of the U.S. Army Medical Department: The Second Continental Congress passes legislation establishing "an hospital for an army consisting of 20,000 men."
- Van Gogh's SuicideDutch painter Vincent van Gogh shoots himself in Auvers-sur-Oise and dies of his injuries 2 days later
- Discovery of InsulinFrederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto
- Cigarette Labeling and Advertising ActUS President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette manufacturers to print health warnings about the effects of smoking on all cigarette packages
- Liberia shuts down most of its borders due to fears about the spread of Ebola epidemic
- Worst WHO EmergencyWHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus states that COVID-19 is "easily the most severe" global health emergency the WHO has faced
- American gymnast and four-time Olympic gold medallist Simone Biles withdraws from the women's team final at the Tokyo Games citing need to focus on her mental health; also misses individual finals
- Florida records its highest one-day total of COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic at 21,683
Born on this day
- José Celso BarbosaPuerto Rican physician, sociologist and political leader, born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico (d. 1921)
- António José de AlmeidaPortuguese physician and politician, 6th President of Portugal (died 1929)
- Herbert JasperCanadian physiologist and neurologist, born in La Grande, Oregon (d. 1999)
- James McGeeBritish pathologist and professor (Morbid Anatomy at Oxford), born in Mossend, Lanarkshire, Scotland
- Hans RoslingSwedish physician, statistician and public speaker (The Best Stats You've Ever Seen), born in Uppsala, Sweden (d. 2017)
- Sheikh Muszaphar ShukorMalaysian doctor and astronaut (Expedition 16), first Malaysian sent into space, born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Died on this day
- Margaret E BreckinridgeUS nurse/daughter of VP John, dies
- Walter ChanningAmerican physician who was the first to use anesthesia during childbirth, dies at 90
- Emil Theodor KocherSwiss surgeon, Thyroid specialist (Nobel 1909), dies at 75
- Auguste-Henri ForelSwiss neuroanatomist and entomologist, investigated structure of the brain, dies at 58
- Hermann BrauneckGerman physician and SA general (born 1894)
- Conrad ElvehjemAmerican biochemist and nutrition scientist (discovered niacin), dies at 61
- Julius B. RichmondAmerican physician (12th US Surgeon General, 1977-81), and creator of the Head Start program, dies at 91
- Marco Aurelio DenegriPeruvian literature critic, television host and sexologist