July 28 in Medical History

13 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.

Observed today

2016Earliest evidence of cancer is found in a 1.7 million-year-old toe fossil from Swartkrans Cave, South Africa, published in the South African Journal of ScienceDiscovery / ResearchOnThisDay
2017McCain Sinks Obamacare RepealUS Senate vote on the "skinny" repeal of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), fails 51-49 as John McCain casts the deciding vote against itPublic health / PolicyOnThisDay

1898Charles William MayoAmerican surgeon (Mayo Clinic), born in Rochester, Minnesota (d. 1968)Physician / SurgeonOnThisDay
1925Baruch Samuel BlumbergAmerican scientist, (1976 Nobel laureate for Physiology or Medicine for work on Hepatitis B), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2011)Medical scientistWikipedia

1869Carl Gustav CarusGerman psychologist, philosopher and painter, dies at 80Psychiatry / PsychologyOnThisDay
1869Jan Evangelista PurkyněCzech anatomist (b. 1787)Medical scientistWikipedia
1930Allvar GullstrandSwedish physician (Nobel Prize 1911), dies at 68Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
1939William James MayoAmerican surgeon and co-founder (Mayo Clinic in Minnesota), dies at 78Physician / SurgeonOnThisDay
1968Charles William MayoAmerican surgeon (Mayo Clinic), dies in a car accident on his 70th birthdayPhysician / SurgeonOnThisDay
1969Ramón GrauCuban politician, 6th and 10th President of Cuba, dies at 87Physician / SurgeonWikipedia
2004Francis CrickEnglish molecular biologist who co-discovered DNA's structure, with James Watson (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1962), dies of colon cancer at 88 (1916-2004)Medical scientistWikipedia
2015James JudeAmerican thoracic surgeon (developed CPR), dies at 87Physician / SurgeonOnThisDay

Sources: onthisday.com and Wikipedia's “On this day” (text under CC BY-SA 4.0), screened for medical relevance. Each entry links to its source.