June 19 in Medical History
20 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- World Sickle Cell Day (International)
Events
- Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio in San Francisco
- Albert W Dent elected president of US National Health Council
- Event of InterestAt about 4:30 pm, Stephen King is hit by a car on the shoulder of Route 5, in Lovell, Maine. He would suffer numerous injuries, including a collapsed right lung, multiple fractures of his right leg, scalp laceration and a broken hip
- Film & TV HistoryAmerican actress Shannen Doherty (44) reveals that she has breast cancer
- Sports HistoryAlex Puccio undergoes spinal fusion surgery due to a herniated disk
- US Center for Disease Control recommends COVID-19 vaccines for kids aged 6-months to 5 years
- Heatwave with temperatures between 42C and 47C in Indian province of Uttar Pradesh, with a controversy erupting after official suggests dozens have died because of it
- At least 550 people are reported to have died on hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, as temperatures topped 51.8 degrees C (125.2 F)
Born on this day
- Lemuel HopkinsAmerican physician, poet and member of the Hartford Wits literary group, born in Waterbury, Connecticut (d. 1801)
- Friedrich SertürnerGerman chemist and pharmacist (died 1841)
- James BraidScottish-English surgeon (died 1860)
- Georg Karl Maria SeidlitzGerman entomologist and academic (died 1917)
- Alajos SzokolyiHungarian hurdler, jumper, and physician (died 1932)
- Adriaan Franciscus DussenbroekDutch doctor and co-founder (Union National Arubano), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1965)
- Ernst ChainGerman-British chemist and bacteriologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1945 - for his work on penicillin), born in Berlin, German Empire (d. 1979)
- Karl H. Beyer Jr.American pharmacologist (discovered 1st drugs for hypertension and gout), born in Henderson, Kentucky (d. 1996)
Died on this day
- James CollipCanadian biochemist and physiologist (insulin), dies at 72
- Subhash MukherjeeIndian scientist and physician who created India's first, and the world's second, child using in-vitro fertilisation (born 1931)
- Fernand SeguinCanadian biochemist and radio/television personality (La Science en sandale, Science Réalité), dies at 66