March 18 in Medical History
14 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- NY 1st requires serological blood tests of pregnant women
- 1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Philadelphia)
- American R&B singer Teddy Pendergrass' spinal cord severed in a car accident
- Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is removed at the request of her husband
- COVID-19 PandemicUS President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agree to close the US-Canada border, the world's longest, to non-essential travel to curb COVID-19
Born on this day
- Jérôme le Royer de la DauversièreFrench religious leader, founded the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal (died 1659)
- Maude AbbottCanadian physician (world expert on congenital heart disease), born in St Andrews East, Quebec (d. 1940)
- Cluny MacPhersonCanadian doctor and inventor of the gas mask, born in St. John's, Newfoundland (1879-1966)
- Herman TarnowerAmerican cardiologist (The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet), born in New York City (d. 1980)
- Frances Cress WelsingAmerican psychiatrist and author (died 2016)
- Linda PartridgeEnglish geneticist and academic
Died on this day
- Erich FrommGerman psychologist and psychoanalyst (Sane Society), dies at 79
- Ludwig GuttmannGerman-British neurologist, founder of the Stoke Mandeville Games (now the Paralympics), dies at 80
- Grace OgotKenyan nurse, journalist, and politician (born 1930)