November 13 in Medical History
12 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis
- The United States Supreme Court upholds mandatory vaccinations for public school students in Zucht v. King.
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestDale Wasserman's stage play "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", adapted from the novel by Ken Kesey, starring Kirk Douglas , Ed Ames; Joan Tetzel, and Gene Wilder , opens at Cort Theatre, NYC; runs for 82 performances
- WBA lightweight champion Ray Mancini defeats South Korean challenger Duk Koo Kim by TKO in the 14th round in Las Vegas; Kim collapses, falls into a coma, and dies four days later; as a result, WBC shortens title bouts to 12 rounds; WBA and WBO follow in 1988, and IBF in 1989
- 1st condom commercial on British TV
- Germany records its highest number of daily COVID-19 cases amid warnings its fourth wave could kill 100,000
Born on this day
- Dorothea Erxleben (née Leporin)German first female medical doctor, born in Quedlinburg, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1762)
- Edward Adelbert DoisyAmerican biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986)
Died on this day
- Geronimo MercurialiItalian philologist and physician, wrote the first book on sports medicine "De Arte Gymnastica", dies at 76
- Girolamo MercurialeItalian physician and philologist (born 1530)
- J. Marion SimsAmerican physician and surgical pioneer (vesicovaginal operation) who experimented on enslaved women, dies from heart attack at 70
- Dida DederdingDanish doctor and academic (born 1889)