May 22 in Medical History
14 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Canadian Rick Hansen completes his 'Man in Motion' world tour in a wheelchair at Vancouver's BC Place Stadium, raising money for spinal cord research
- Japanese researchers from University of Yamanashi report birth of mice from freeze-dried sperm stored on the International Space Station
- Outbreak of Nipah virus confirmed to have killed 10 including a nurse in Kozhikode, India
- Hypothermia kills 21 runners in the 100 km (60-mile) Gansu ultramarathon disaster in China.
Born on this day
- Albrecht von GraefeGerman ophthalmologist and academic (died 1870)
- Henry Vandyke CarterEnglish anatomist and surgeon (died 1897)
- Arthur Conan DoyleBritish author who brought Sherlock Holmes to life (twice), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (1859-1930)
- LaSalle Leffall Jr.American surgeon, medical educator, and 1st black president of the American Cancer Society (1978), and the American College of Surgeons (1995), born in Tallahassee, Florida (d. 2019)
- Robert L. SpitzerAmerican psychiatrist known for his work on DSM-Ⅲ and his efforts to destigmatize homosexuality, born in White Plains, New York (d. 2015)
- M. Scott PeckAmerican psychiatrist and writer (The Road Less Traveled), born in New York City (d. 2005)
Died on this day
- Georges Gilles de la TouretteFrench neurologist, hysteria specialist, and namesake of Tourette's syndrome, dies from syphilis at 46
- Alfonso Quiñónez MolinaSalvadoran politician, physician, and three-time president of El Salvador (born 1874)
- Alfred HersheyAmerican biologist, worked with bacteriophages (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ,1969), dies congestive heart failure at 88
- Lee Jong-wookKorean Director-General of the World Health Organization, dies of stroke at 61