May 6 in Medical History
20 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
- American Lung Association holds its first meeting
- The Deutsche Studentenschaft attack Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, later burning many of its books.
- France bans too thin fashion models and makes labeling of digitally enhanced photos mandatory
- At least 90,000 healthcare workers worldwide infected by COVID-19, more than 260 nurses have died according to International Council of Nurses
- Irish organization repays a 170 year old favor, raising over $2 million (to date) for US Navajo Nation and Hopi Reservation badly affected by COVID-19. In 1840s Choctaw Nation sent $170 to aid Irish potato famine.
- UK becomes the first European country to report over 30,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19
- Scandal within the Miss Universe Organization as Miss USA Noelia Voigt resigns citing her mental health; Miss Teen USA UmaSofia Srivastava also resigns two days later
Born on this day
- Johann Joachim BecherGerman physician and alchemist (died 1682)
- Chapin A. HarrisAmerican dentist who founded the America Society of Dental Surgeons, born in Pompey, New York (d. 1860)
- Martin DelanyAfrican-American abolitionist and physician (1st African American major in US Army), born in Charles Town, Virginia (d. 1885)
- Sigmund FreudAustrian neurologist and father of psychology , born in Freiberg, Austrian Empire (1856-1939)
- Rolf Maximilian SievertSwedish physicist and academic (died 1966)
- Camille LaurinQuebec psychiatrist and politician (Parti Québécois), born in Charlemagne, Quebec (d. 1999)
- Chiaki Naito-MukaiJapanese astronaut who took part is missions STS-65 and STS-95, born in Tatebayashi, Japan
Died on this day
- James Young SimpsonScottish obstetrician who popularized chloroform for medicinal use, dies at 58
- Maria MontessoriItalian physician/educationist, dies at 81 (1870-1952)
- Geoffrey DawesBritish physiologist (fetal and neonatal physiology), dies at 78
- Enéas CarneiroBrazilian politician (b. 1938)
- Jean LaplancheFrench psychoanalyst and author (born 1924)