June 18 in Medical History
16 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane
- NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants
- The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California
- SF Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky's cancerous left arm is amputated
- China has been forcefully harvesting organs from marginalized groups in prison camps on a significant scale according to International Tribunal in London
- Canadian coronavirus COVID-19 known cases pass 100,000 with 8,361 deaths
- Global COVID-19 death toll passes 450,000 (451,118) with 8,421,357 cases known according to Johns Hopkins figures
Born on this day
- Charles Louis Alphonse LaveranFrench physician and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1907), born in Paris, France (d. 1922)
- Wilfred Gordon BigelowCanadian soldier and surgeon (died 2005)
- Edwin ClarkeBritish neurologist, medical historian,and museum keeper, born in Felling-on-Tyne, England (d. 1996)
- David T. LykkenAmerican behavioral geneticist, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 2006)
- Tiiu AroEstonian physician and politician, Estonian Minister of Social Affairs
Died on this day
- Jeanne ManceFrench-Canadian settler who founded the first hospital in North America (Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal), dies at 66 (1606-1673)
- Gerard van SwietenDutch-Austrian physician (Austrian Empress Maria Theresa's personal physician), dies at 72
- Walter C. AlvarezAmerican physician (b. 1884)
- Kofoworola Abeni Prattthe first black Chief Nursing Officer of Nigeria (born 1910)