June 1 in Medical History
17 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Edith Wharton suffers a heart attack and collapses at the French country home of Ogden Codman
- Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio & TV
- The Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine
- US General Norman Schwarzkopf released from hospital after prostate surgery
- 10th Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $5,400,186
- Jack Kevorkian ReleasedJack Kevorkian is released from prison after serving eight years of his 10-25 year prison term for the 1998 second-degree murder of Thomas Youk
- Malaysia begins a full two-week lockdown as COVID-19 cases surge with record 9,020 news cases recorded May 29
Born on this day
- Henry FauldsBritish surgeon, fingerprinting pioneer, and founder of the Tokyo Institute for the Blind, born in Beith, Scotland (d. 1930)
- Richard S. SchweikerAmerican politician (Sen-R-PA 1969-81; US Secretary of Health and Human Services 1981-83), born in Norristown, Pennsylvania (d. 2015)
- Parveen KumarPakistani-English physician and academic
Died on this day
- Pierre-Joseph DesaultFrench anatomist (b. 1744)
- Francis Seymour HadenBritish surgeon and etcher, dies at 91
- Hans BergerGerman neurologist and academic (born 1873)
- Werner ForssmannGerman urologist (Nobel 1956), dies at 74
- Robert Arthur HughesEnglish surgeon and Presbyterian missionary, dies at 85
- Hilda Crosby StandishAmerican physician (born 1902)
- Timofei MoșneagaMoldovan physician and politician, Moldovan Minister of Health (born 1932)