March 19 in Medical History
17 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Mississippi signs into law the US's strictest abortion laws, no termination after 15 weeks
- Italian death toll from COVID-19 at 3,405 surpasses China's official total (3,245) making it then the worst-affected country in the world
- Professional football in England is further postponed until 'no earlier than 30 April' due to the COVID-19 pandemic
- State of California with 910 cases of COVID-19 locks down and orders people to "stay at home"
Born on this day
- Jean AstrucFrench physician and scholar who was the first to apply textual analysis to study Genesis, born in Sauve, France (d. 1766)
- Tobias SmollettScottish writer, surgeon and critic (The Expedition of Humphry Clinker), born in Dalquhurn, Scotland (d. 1771) [date baptized]
- Siegfried T. BokDutch neurobiologist and anatomist, known for the equi-volume principle, born in Wormer, Netherlands (d. 1964)
- Kenneth RobinsonBritish politician (influential Minister of Health under Harold Wilson, reformed Health Service), born in Warrington, England (d. 1996)
- William FranklandBritish immunologist known as the "grandfather of allergy" due to his work on the pollen count, born in Sussex, England (d. 2020)
- Henekh "Henry" MorgentalerPolish-Canadian gynecologist, abortion rights advocate, and Holocaust survivor, born in Łódź, Poland (d. 2013)
- John MichelsAmerican NFL tackle, 1996-99 (Green Bay Packers-Super Bowl XXXI, Philadelphia Eagles), and radiologist, born in La Jolla, California
Died on this day
- Philip MazzeiItalian physician, philosopher, and friend of Thomas Jefferson, dies at 85
- Filippo MazzeiItalian-American physician and philosopher (born 1730)
- Elias LönnrotFinnish physician and philologist (born 1802)
- Virginia HendersonAmerican nurse, researcher, theorist and author (born 1897)
- Shafiq-ur-RahmanPakistani physician and author (born 1920)
- William CharetteAmerican navy Hospital Corpsman and Medal of Honour recipient, dies at 79