March 9 in Medical History
22 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Dr George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the US Navy
- Charles Graham of NY granted first US patent for artificial teeth
- 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana
- Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner implants for the first time a shunt he invented into a patient, which allows the patient to receive hemodialysis on a regular basis.
- 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000
- Dr Antonia Novello sworn-in as 1st Hispanic and female US Surgeon General
- Music HistoryBonham's Auctions in New York City conducts sale of Eric Clapton and friends' guitars and amplifiers to benefit Crossroads Centre at Antigua, a drug and alcohol residential rehabilitation facility he co-founded in 1997, raising over $1.75M
- Italy announces it is locking down the whole country due to a spike in COVID-19 cases with 10,040 cases and 630 deaths
- Brazil records its highest daily COVID-19 death toll to date of 1,972 deaths with 168,370 deaths overall
- Film & TV HistoryUK TV host Piers Morgan leaves ITV's "Good Morning" after 41,000 complaints made about him saying he did not believe Meghan, Duchess of Sussex 's statement about her mental health
- Russian airstrikes on Ukrainian city of Mariupol hit a hospital, killing at least three people, as attempts to create a humanitarian corridor out of the city fail
Born on this day
- Franz Joseph GallGerman-French physician (phrenology), born in Tiefenbronn, Germany (d. 1828)
- George HaywardAmerican surgeon, performed first major operation under ether anesthesia, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1863)
- John EvansAmerican physician, railroad promoter, founder of Mercy Hospital (Chicago), Northwestern University, and University of Denver, and politician (Territorial Governor of Colorado, 1862-65) who was implicated in the Sand Creek Massacre of Cheyenne Indians, born in Waynesville, Ohio (d. 1897)
- Emil AbderhaldenSwiss physiologist and biochemist, born in Oberuzwil, Switzerland (d. 1950)
- Fritz LenzGerman geneticist and Nazi eugenics influencer, born in Pflugrade, Pomerania, Kingdom of Prussia (now Redło, Poland) (d. 1976)
- Ramon Campbell BatistaChilean physician, composer, and ethnomusicologist (traditional music of the Rapanui people), born in Quilpué, Chile (d. 2000)
- David WeatherallEnglish physician, geneticist, and academic (died 2018)
Died on this day
- Rebecca Lee CrumplerAmerican physician and medical writer (first African American woman to receive a medical degree), dies at 64
- Earl Wilbur Sutherland JrAmerican pharmacologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1971 for discovering mechanisms of the action of hormones), dies at 58
- Max DelbrückGerman-American biologist and molecular geneticist (bacteriophage, Nobel Prize 1969), dies at 74
- Ulf von EulerSwedish physiologist famous for his work on neurotransmitters (Nobel 1970), dies at 78