June 29 in Medical History
21 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Cardano’s Golden CureItalian physician and mathematician Girolamo Cardano arrives in Edinburgh, Scotland to treat John Hamilton, Archbishop of St Andrews for over two thousand gold crowns
- Cheney Takes ChargeUS Vice President Dick Cheney serves as acting president for two and a half hours while President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy
- Thomas Beatie, the world's first pregnant man, gives birth to a daughter
- US Supreme Court rules 5-4 that abortion restrictions in Louisiana unconstitutional, striking down a 2014 state law
- World's first known plague victim identified in the remains of a 5,000-year-old hunter-gatherer in Latvia
Born on this day
- Rembert Dodoens [Rembert Van Joenckema]Flemish physician and botanist, born in Mechelen, Spanish Netherlands (d. 1585)
- William James MayoAmerican surgeon and co-founder (Mayo Clinic in Minnesota), born in Le Sueur, Minnesota (d. 1939)
- Francis Brett YoungBritish physician and writer (White Ladies), born in Halesowen, England (d. 1954)
- Juliane GabrielsBelgian physician and art historian who was one of the first female doctors in Belgium (Artus Quellin the Elder, Flemish Sculpture), born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1958)
- Roy WalfordAmerican pathologist and gerontologist (died 2004)
- Joel HabenerAmerican physician-scientist who discovered the role of GLP-1 in diabetes and obesity, born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 2025)
- Joan ClosSpanish politician (116th Mayor of Barcelona & Minister of Industry), born in Parets del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
- Gurbanguly BerdimuhamedowTurkmen dentist and politician, 2nd President of Turkmenistan
Died on this day
- Edward TaylorAmerican-English poet, pastor, and physician (born circa 1642)
- John GorrieAmerican physician and humanitarian (born 1803)
- Thomas AddisonEnglish physician (A-Biermer Disease), dies at 67
- José Gregorio HernándezVenezuelan physician, humanitarian, and Catholic saint, dies after being struck by a car at 54
- Nérée BeaucheminCanadian physician and poet (Trois-Rivières), dies at 81
- Alexander George OgstonBritish biochemist, and educator (professor at Australian National University, 1959-70; president of Trinity College - Oxford, 1970-78), dies at 85
- Bernard BabiorAmerican physician and biochemist, dies at 68
- Irving GottesmanAmerican psychologist known for his work on the causes of schizophrenia, dies at 85