March 17 in Medical History
18 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic in London
- Physician Willem J. Kolff performs the world's first 'hemodialysis' using his artificial kidney machine, however the treatment is unsuccessful and the patient dies, in the Netherlands
- Iran says Iraq uses poison gas
- It is announced there is no smoking in Cleveland Indians new ballpark
- US approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck & Co
- European Union announces a 30-day ban on entering its 26 countries for almost all travelers as it struggles to contain COVID-19
- UEFA announces the postponement of its flagship national team football competition, UEFA EURO 2020, due to be played in June / July due to the COVID-19 emergency
- French Open becomes first Grand Slam tennis tournament to be postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic; moves from May 24-June 7 to September 20-October 4; conflicts with Laver Cup men’s team event
Born on this day
- Rosina HeikelFinnish physician (died 1929)
- Otto GrossAustrian-German psychoanalyst and philosopher (died 1920)
- Walter Rudolf HessSwiss physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1949 for mapping parts of the brain that control internal organs, born in Frauenfeld, Switzerland (d. 1973)
- David Stafford-ClarkEnglish psychiatrist, born in Bromley, Kent, England (d. 1999)
- David PeakallBritish toxicologist whose work on DDT lead to its banning in the US, born in Purley, England (d. 2001)
Died on this day
- Petrus DathenusFlemish minister/physician (Psalms of David), dies
- Adolf MeyerAmerican psychiatrist and neurologist (pioneered mental hygiene), dies at 83
- Bertha De VrieseBelgian physician (born 1877)
- Haldan Keffer HartlineAmerican physiologist , (1967 Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for work in the eye), dies at 79 (1903-1983)
- Anthony StorrEnglish psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author (born 1920)