November 10 in Medical History
16 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- World Keratoconus Day
Events
- A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario.
- NHL Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Pelle Lindbergh smashes his Porsche into a retaining wall in Somerdale, New Jersey after a team party, suffering mortal injuries with two passengers critically hurt; his blood-alcohol level was over twice the legal limit, his family had him removed from life support when they arrived from Sweden
- World Anti-Doping Agency is formed in Lausanne.
Born on this day
- John BevisEnglish physician and astronomer (discovered Crab Nebula), born in Old Sarum, Wiltshire (d. 1771)
- Jared KirtlandAmerican physician, naturalist and reformed penitentiaries, born in Wallingford, Connecticut (d. 1877)
- Samuel Gridley HoweUnited States physician, abolitionist, and advocate of education for the blind, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1876)
- József Mátyás BalóHungarian physician and academic (died 1979)
- Bernard BabiorAmerican physician and biochemist, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2004)
- Richard CottonAustralian geneticist and academic (died 2015)
- Diane Carlson EvansAmerican Army nurse and founder of the Vietnam Women's Memorial Foundation, born in Buffalo, Minnesota (d. 2026)
Died on this day
- Justine SiegemundSilesian midwife (1st woman to publish a German medical text - The Court Midwife), dies at 68
- Gideon MantellEnglish scientist (born 1790)
- (Heinrich) "Henry" WirzSwiss American Confederate army officer (Commander of Camp Sumter prisoner-of-war facility), hanged after being found guilty of excessive cruelty at 41
- John GrantAustralian neurosurgeon (born 1922)
- Dorian "Doc" PaskowitzAmerican surfer and physician (born 1921)