November 11 in Medical History
24 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Mary Edwards Walker, the first female US Army surgeon, is awarded the Medal of Honor
- First AIDS-themed TV movie "An Early Frost" screens in the US on NBC
- John Paul II HospitalizedPope John Paul II is hospitalized for two days for a fractured shoulder
- Democratic Republic of Congo announces its worst-ever outbreak of Ebola with 198 deaths
- UK becomes the first European country to record over 50,000 COVID-19 related deaths; fifth country to hit the mark, after the US, Brazil, India, and Mexico
Born on this day
- ParacelsusSwiss physician and alchemist (Zinc, Laudanum), born in Einsiedeln, Switzerland (1493-1541)
- Martin Ruland the YoungerGerman physician and alchemist, born in Lauingen, Bavaria, Germany (d. 1611)
- Carl Peter ThunbergSwedish naturalist, born in Jönköping, Sweden (d. 1828)
- Ephraim McDowellAmerican physician and surgeon (pioneered abdominal surgery), born in Rockbridge, Virginia (d. 1830)
- George Washington CrileAmerican surgeon (conducted the first direct blood transfusion and studied the effects of surgical shock), born in Chili, Ohio (d. 1943)
- Grunya SukharevaUkrainian-Russian psychiatrist and university lecturer (died 1981)
- Charles Bruce PerryEnglish Professor of Medicine (Bristol University), born in Bristol, England (d. 1996)
- Joseph Gilbert HamiltonAmerican physician who was a pioneer of using radioactive isotopes in disease treatment and diagnosis, born in Waverley, Massachusetts (1907-1957)
- H. Jack GeigerAmerican doctor, civil rights activist and founding member of Physicians for Social Responsibility, born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2020)
- Elizabeth GlaserAmerican AIDS activist, and wife of actor Paul Michael Glaser, born in New York (d. 1994)
Died on this day
- Thomas WillisEnglish physician, studied epidemiology, anatomy of the brain and the nervous system, dies at 54
- Paul BertAuxerre, French Zoologist, Physiologist and pioneer of aerospace medicine whose study of the effects of air pressure on the body made possible space and ocean exploration, dies of dysentery at 53
- Alfonso LengChilean dentist and composer (Doloras), dies at 90
- Lowell T. CoggeshallAmerican medical scientist and US Secretary of HEW (1956-58), dies at 86
- Sadi IrmakTurkish physician and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1904)
- Frances TustinEnglish child psychologist, dies at 81
- Pedro ZamoraCuban American AIDS activist, dies at 22
- Frances AmesSouth African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist (born 1920)
- Frank DobsonBritish politician, Secretary of Health under Tony Blair, dies at 79