July 31 in Medical History
14 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- First Surgery Under Kerosene LampFirst nighttime surgery performed at Lychakiv Hospital in Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine) using new kerosene oil lamps invented by Ignacy Łukasiewicz
- Cigarette advertising is banned on British TV
- Eagleton WithdrawsSenator Thomas Eagleton withdraws as the Democratic vice-presidential candidate at George McGovern 's request after news that Eagleton sought treatment for depression becomes public
- Early Clue to Parkinson's DiseaseActor Alan Alda reveals he has had Parkinson's disease for three years in an interview with CBS's "This Morning" and discusses how physically acting out your dreams can be an early symptom
- Mexico overtakes the UK to have the world's third highest death toll from COVID-19 with 46,688 fatalities
Born on this day
- Paul D. BoyerAmerican biochemist and Nobel Prize Laureate for research on the "enzymatic mechanism underlying the biosynthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)" (1997), born in Provo, Utah (d. 2018)
- Bernard NathansonAmerican physician and activist (died 2011)
- Walter VogtSwiss writer (Wüthrich) and psychiatrist, born in Zurich (d. 1988)
- France NuyenVietnamese-French actress (St Elsewhere, Diamond Head), born in Marseilles, France
- Mark O’BrienAmerican disability advocate, journalist and poet (The Man in the Iron Lung), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1999)
Died on this day
- Charles E. HiresAmerican pharmacist, inventor and manufacturer of the Hires Root Beer beverage, dies at 85 (1851-1937)
- Richard KuhnAustrian-German biochemist (Nobel 1938-work on carotenoids and vitamins), dies at 66
- Howard W. Jones Jr.American physician who oversaw the birth of the first American 'test tube' baby and helped open the first sex-change clinic in a US hospital, dies at 104
- Richard S. SchweikerAmerican politician (Sen-R-PA 1969-81; US Secretary of Health and Human Services 1981-83), dies of complications of an infection at 89