June 17 in Medical History
22 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established
- 1st kidney transplant (Chicago)
- U.S. president Richard Nixon in a televised press conference calls drug abuse "America's public enemy number one", starting the war on drugs.
- Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78
- Event of InterestFormer Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi dies after collapsing during a court appearance in Cairo
- First major breakthrough in treating COVID-19 using steroid dexamethasone announced by Oxford University
- Television FinaleMedia star Jeremy Clarkson , 66, reveals his prostate cancer diagnosis in the series finale of his popular TV show "Clarkson's Farm"
Born on this day
- Susan La Flesche PicotteAmerican physician (first Native American woman to receive a medical degree), born on the Omaha Reservation, Nebraska (d. 1915)
- Edward Anthony SpitzkaAmerican anatomist and author (died 1922)
- Coenraad van Emde BoasDutch sexologist, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1981)
- Karl TargownikHungarian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1996)
- François JacobFrench biologist and bacteriologist (Nobel Prize 1965), born in Nancy, France (d. 2013)
- Arnold S. RelmanAmerican physician and academic (died 2014)
- Alexander ShulginAmerican pharmacologist and chemist (died 2014)
- Shatzi WeisbergerJewish-American nurse, educator, and activist (died 2022)
- Karol SikoraEnglish physician and academic
Died on this day
- Joseph WarrenAmerican physician and soldier, dies at 34
- Arthur HardenEnglish biochemist (Nobel Prize 1929), dies at 74
- Paul RostockGerman doctor (b. 1892)
- Éric DewaillyCanadian epidemiologist and academic (born 1954)
- Arnold S. RelmanAmerican physician and academic (born 1923)
- William DementAmerican researcher known as the "Father of Sleep Medicine", dies of complications of a heart procedure at 91