May 25 in Medical History
12 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- The ship Grand-Saint Antoine reaches Marseille, bringing Europe's last major outbreak of bubonic plague, which kills around 100,000 people
- Ireland votes to repeal the Eighth Amendment of their constitution that prohibits abortion in all but a few cases, choosing to replace it with the Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland.
- New research show impact of 'climate racism' in the US, with black people facing double (+3.12C) the amount of heat stress in urban areas
- US CDC says half of all US adults are now fully vaccinated, with 61% having had their first shot
- Tedros Re-electedTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus re-elected Director-General of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland
Born on this day
- Camillus de LellisItalian Roman Catholic saint (founder of the Ministers of the Sick), born in Bucchianico, Kingdom of Naples (d. 1614)
- Jean Alexandre BarréFrench neurologist who helped identify the Guillain-Barré-Strohl syndrome, born in Nantes, France (d. 1967)
- Uta FrithGerman developmental psychologist
Died on this day
- Gemma Frisius [Jemme Reinerszoon]Frisian physician, mathematician and cartographer (created globe), dies at 46
- Anders DahlSwedish botanist (b. 1751)
- Elisabeth GeleerdDutch-American psychoanalyst (born 1909)
- LaSalle Leffall Jr.American surgeon, medical educator, and 1st black president of the American Cancer Society (1978), and the American College of Surgeons (1995), dies at 89