May 28 in Medical History
17 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- Menstrual Hygiene Day
Events
- Black Death Massacre: 60 Jews murdered in Breslau, Silesia; part of a wave of pogroms across Western Europe
- Netherlands move to ban phosphorus in matches in a step towards eradicate 'phossy jaw' (phosphorus necrosis)
- The Dionne identical quintuplets are born to Oliva-Édouard and Elzire Dionne near Callander, Ontario, are the first quintuplets to survive infancy
- Bob Dylan hospitalized in England with histoplasmosis (fungal lung infection)
- One million French smokers quit in one year after anti-smoking measures introduced according to Public Health France
- Johnson & Johnson go on trial in Oklahoma accused of deceptively marketing painkillers and downplaying risks of addiction helping create "opioid epidemic"; first of 2,000 cases against US pharmaceutical firms
- Surgeons complete the world's first whole eyeball transplant with a partial facial transplant for a US veteran lineman injured in an accident at NYU Langone Health
Born on this day
- Joseph-Ignace GuillotinFrench physician and freemason who proposed and became the namesake of the guillotine, born in Saintes, France (d. 1814)
- Gordon WolstenholmeBritish physician (Ciba Foundation), born in Sheffield, England (d. 2004)
- Stanley B. PrusinerAmerican neurologist and biochemist who discovered prions (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1997), born in Des Moines, Iowa
- Patch Adams [Hunter Adams]American physician, comedian, activist, and clown, born in Washington, D.C.
- Helena ShoveltonEnglish physician
Died on this day
- Adolf KussmaulGerman physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease), dies at 80
- Alfred AdlerAustrian psychiatrist (Inferiority Complex), dies at 67 (1870-1937)
- Vulimiri RamalingaswamiIndian medical scientist, dies at 79
- Jens Christian SkouDanish scientist (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1997), dies at 99