July 9 in Medical History
21 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies after eating raw fruit and iced milk; he is succeeded in office by Vice President Millard Fillmore.
- First Open-Heart SurgerySurgeon Daniel Hale Williams performs the first successful open-heart surgery when he repairs the torn pericardium of knife wound patient James Cornish, without the use of penicillin or blood transfusion
- Northern Ireland MPs vote to extend same-sex marriage and make abortion legal to bring it in line with rest of UK
Born on this day
- Friedrich Gustav Jakob HenleGerman pathologist, born in Fürth, Bavaria (d. 1885)
- Friedrich Gustav Jakob HenleGerman physician, pathologist, and anatomist (died 1885)
- Carlos ChagasBrazilian sanitary physician, born in Oliveira, Minas Gerais, Empire of Brazil (d. 1934)
- Viktor HamburgerGerman experimental embryologist known for his work on nerve growth, born in Landeshut, Germany (d. 2001)
- Mathilde KrimAmerican medical researcher and founding chairman of amfAR (Foundation for AIDS Research), born in Como, Italy (d. 2018)
- Patricia KennerAmerican politician and registered nurse (died 2013)
- Oliver SacksBritish neurologist and author (Awakenings), born in London (d. 2015)
- Eugene Victor WolfensteinAmerican psychoanalyst and theorist (died 2010)
- Amal ibn Idris al-AlamiMoroccan physician and neurosurgeon
Died on this day
- Angelus Silesius [Johann Scheffer]German mystic, poet and court physician, dies at 52
- Anna Morandi ManzoliniSpanish anatomist (born 1714)
- Paul BrocaFrench brain surgeon and anthropologist (located speech center), dies at 56
- Mori ŌgaiJapanese novelist (The Wild Geese), poet and surgeon, dies at 60
- Clifford Whittingham BeersAmerican mental hygiene pioneer, dies at 67
- Eugen FischerNazi physician (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute), dies at 93 (1874-1967)
- Fatima JinnahPakistani dentist and politician (born 1893)
- Terepai MaoatePrime Minister of the Cook Islands, dies from prostate cancer at 78
- Lillian Roberts [née Davis]American nurse's aide, labor leader and the executive director of District Council 37 (2002-14), dies at 98