July 8 in Medical History
20 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse gives the first cowpox vaccination in the United States to his son to prevent smallpox
- American Psychological Association organized in Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
- G.E.V. Crutchley playing for Oxford scores 99 not out, retires with measles v Cambridge
- Kitty Dukakis reveals an addiction to amphetamines for 26 years
- Americans and Polynesians made contact around 1200 A.D. according to new genomic study in "Nature"; people from eastern Polynesia had DNA from indigenous Colombia
- Australian city of Melbourne goes back into lockdown for six weeks after second outbreak of 700 active cases
- Global known death toll from COVID-19 passes 4 million (equal to all deaths in battle since 1982)
- Japan says the Olympics will be held without spectators as Tokyo announces state of emergency due to a surge in COVID-19
Born on this day
- Dominique Jean LarreyFrench surgeon under Napoleon, first modern military surgeon, born in Beaudéan, Pyrenees (d. 1842)
- John PembertonAmerican pharmacist who invented Coca-Cola, born in Knoxville, Georgia (1831-1888)
- Eli LillyAmerican Union Army officer, pharmacist, chemist, and founder of Eli Lilly and Company, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1898)
- Alfred BinetFrench child psychologist who invented the first practical IQ test (Binet–Simon test), born in Nice, France (d. 1911)
- Fritz PerlsGerman-American psychiatrist and psychotherapist (father of Gestalt therapy), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1970)
- John MoneyNew Zealand-American psychologist and sexologist, born in Morrinsville, New Zealand (d. 2006)
- Elizabeth Kubler-RossSwiss-American author and psychiatrist (On Death and Dying), born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 2004)
- Ralf AltmeyerGerman-Chinese virologist and academic
Died on this day
- Havelock EllisBritish physician and social reformer who studied sexual behaviour (Man & Woman), dies at 80
- Refik SaydamTurkish physician and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1881)
- Gyang Dalyop DatongNigerian physician and politician (born 1959)
- Flossie Wong-Staal [Yee Ching Wong]Chinese-American virologist, molecular biologist and the first scientist to clone HIV, dies of complications of pneumonia at 73