May 11 in Medical History
14 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Pennsylvania HospitalPennsylvania Hospital is founded in Philadelphia by Dr. Thomas Bond and Benjamin Franklin
- Last broadcast of "Marcus Welby, MD" on ABC-TV
- First heart-lung transplant takes place in Baltimore
- Milano Calls for Sex StrikeAmerican actress and #MeToo activist Alyssa Milano urges women to go on a "sex strike" after Georgia passes a new abortion law
- World Health Organization warns “extreme vigilance” needed as many countries begin easing lockdowns
- Last passengers depart the hantavirus-hit cruise ship, MV Hondius, with 27 crew members and medical staff still on board; currently eight cases are confirmed, including three deaths
Born on this day
- Petrus CamperDutch anatomist and anthropologist who studied comparative anatomy, paleontology and the facial angle, born in Leiden, Netherlands (d. 1789)
- Johann Friedrich BlumenbachGerman anthropologist and naturalised credited as a founder of zoology and anthropology, born in Gotha, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (d. 1840)
- William GlasserAmerican psychiatrist (reality therapy, choice theory), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2013)
- Henriette SanterDutch-British clinical psychologist, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1994)
Died on this day
- Herbert Spencer GasserAmerican physiologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 74
- Alfred James BroomhallBritish Protestant Christian medical missionary to China, dies at 82
- Abel GoumbaCentral African physician and politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (born 1926)
- Norma Meras SwensonAmerican women's health activist and co-author of "Our Bodies, Ourselves", dies at 93