July 6 in Medical History
18 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Anti-rabies VaccineLouis Pasteur successfully gives an anti-rabies vaccine to 9-year-old Joseph Meister, saving his life
- Institute for Sexual ScienceInstitute for Sexual Science opened in Berlin by physician Magnus Hirschfeld to establish study of sexual science
- Sri Lankan government confirms outbreak of dengue fever has killed at least 227
- Paraguay announces it has eliminated malaria
- America officially begins withdrawing from the World Health Organization
- Zoonotic diseases, which jump from animals to humans, are increasing due to unsustainable farming and climate change according to new report by the UN
Born on this day
- Albert von KöllikerSwiss anatomist and histologist (one of the first to interpret tissue structure in terms of cellular elements), born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1905)
- Ernst Wilhelm von BrückeGerman physician and physiologist, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1892)
- Josef WincklerGerman dentist and writer (Quadriga, Pumpernickel), born in Bentlage, Rheine (d. 1966)
- Godfrey HugginsPrime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (died 1971)
- (Axel) Hugo TheorellSwedish biochemist (Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology, 1955, for discovery of oxidoreductase enzymes), born in Linköping, Sweden (d. 1982)
- Georgeanna Seegar JonesAmerican reproductive endocrinologist who oversaw the birth of the first American 'test tube' baby, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 2005)
- Gazi YaşargilTurkish neurosurgeon and academic (died 2025)
Died on this day
- Claudius AmyandFrench-born British surgeon who performed first appendectomy, dies at about 80
- Aneurin BevanWelsh-British politician (Member of Parliament, 1929-60; Minister of Health, 1945-51 - launched NHS), dies of stomach cancer at 62
- Fritz LenzGerman geneticist and Nazi eugenics influencer, dies at 89
- Nicholas P. DallisAmerican psychiatrist and comic strip writer (Rex Morgan, M.D.), dies at 79
- Marsha P. JohnsonAfrican-American gay liberation and AIDS activist, drag queen, and transgender pioneer (Gay Liberation Front, S.T.A.R.), dies under suspicious circumstances at 46 (1945-1992)