July 3 in Medical History
21 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- US Veterans Administration is created
- US Women's Golf OpenUS Open Women's Golf, Salem CC: Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins by a record 12 strokes from Betty Hicks in her comeback event 14 months after radical colon cancer surgery
- US Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions
- Mississippi becomes the first state to settle lawsuit against tobacco manufacturers for $3.6 billion
- Major League Baseball All-Star Game planned to be hosted on July 14 by the LA Dodgers is cancelled due to government restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic
Born on this day
- Li Shi-zhenChinese physician and medical scholar (Compendium of Materia Medica), born in Qizhou, China (d. 1593)
- Ernst Ferdinand SauerbruchGerman Nazi surgeon, born in Barmen, German Empire (d. 1951)
- Ludwig GuttmannGerman-British neurologist, founder of the Stoke Mandeville Games (now the Paralympics), born in Tost, Prussia, German Empire (now Toszek, Poland) (d. 1980)
- Margaret McFarlandAmerican child psychologist (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood), born in Oakdale, Pennsylvania (1905-1988)
- Michael OliverBritish cardiologist (linked cholesterol with coronary artery disease), born in Borth, Wales (d. 2015)
- Edward Brandt Jr.American physician and public health official, born in Oklahoma (d. 2007)
- Wylie Walker ValeAmerican endocrinologist who discovered the stress hormone, born in Houston, Texas (d. 2012)
- Nigel LattaNew Zealand clinical psychologist, author and television presenter (Beyond the Darklands, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Parenting), born in Oamaru, New Zealand (d. 2025)
Died on this day
- William Crawford GorgasAmerican physician and 22nd Surgeon-General of the U.S. Army (controlled yellow fever during building of the Panama Canal), dies at 65
- Friedrich AkelEstonian physician and politician, Head of State of Estonia (born 1871)
- Siegfried HandloserGerman military physician (WWI; WWII - Chief of Armed Services Medical Services, 1942-44), and convicted Nazi war criminal, dies of cancer at 69
- John Fleming BrockSouth African nutritional scientist, physician and a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town, dies at 78
- Alette BeaujonCuracaos poet (Poems on the Bay and Beyond), and psychologist, dies of cancer at 68
- Alice TimanderSwedish dentist and red carpet queen, dies at 91
- Purnell ChoppinAmerican virologist and president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1987-99), dies of cancer at 91
- Zelig EshharIsraeli cancer researcher and immunologist known for his work on T-cells, dies at 84