June 22 in Medical History
22 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
- American physician Dr Andrew T. Still founds the study of Osteopathy
- Bombay plague commissioner Walter Charles Rand shot by Chapekar brothers as protest against his extreme measures to combat city's plague epidemic (dies July 3)
- Dutch High Council stops addition of fluorine to drinking water
- JAMA Internal Medical Journal announces obese Americans now outnumber those just overweight
- Brazil becomes second country to pass 50,000 deaths (officially) with states of Amazonas, Pará, Ceará, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro most effected.
- New York City, once the epicentre of the pandemic in America, begins stage 2 of re-opening, allowing outdoor dinning and some in-store shopping
- US government data shows African Americans four times more likely than whites to be hospitalized for COVID-19 highlighting racial disparities for the pandemic
- An orangutan in Sumatra is the first wild animal ever scientifically observed using plants as medicine, healing a cheek wound with a poultice
Born on this day
- James Hutchison StirlingScottish physician and philosopher (died 1909).
- William Chester MinorAmerican surgeon and linguist (died 1920)
- Franz AlexanderHungarian psychoanalyst and physician (died 1964)
- Cicely SaundersEnglish nurse , physician and writer who founded the first modern hospice, born in Barnet, England (1918-2005)
- Christopher BoothEnglish clinician and historian (died 2012)
- Joseph GiordanoAmerican trauma surgeon who operated on President Ronald Reagan after he was shot, born in Jersey City, New Jersey (d. 2025)
- Sheila HollinsBaroness Hollins, English psychiatrist and academic
- Michael StrattonEnglish geneticist and academic
Died on this day
- Avicenna [Ibn Sina] Persian polymathastronomer, scientist, physician and philosopher (The Canon of Medicine), dies at 56 or 57 (probable date)
- Adriaan Franciscus DussenbroekDutch doctor and co-founder (Union National Arubano), dies at 72
- Đặng Thùy TrâmVietnamese surgeon and author (born 1942)
- Natalia BekhterevaRussian neuroscientist and psychologist (born 1924)
- Joseph F. Fraumeni Jr.American cancer epidemiologist known for helping discover Li-Fraumeni syndrome, dies at 93