November 15 in Medical History
16 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells
- Valium, created by chemist Leo Sternbach at Roche, approved by US Drug and Food Administration - most prescribed drug in the world 1969-1982
- The documentary short "Heartbeat in the Brain," created by and starring Amanda Feilding, screens at the Suydam Gallery and causes several viewers to faint during the film's climax showing a performance of the ancient practice of trepanation
- Pakistan becomes the 1st country to introduce a vaccine against typhoid, targeting 10 million children
Born on this day
- Heinrich Christian Friedrich SchumacherDanish surgeon, botanist and professor of anatomy (research work in malacology), born in Glückstadt, Holstein, Germany (d. 1830)
- Sara Josephine BakerAmerican physician and academic (died 1945)
- August KroghDanish zoophysiologist ( Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1920 for study of arterioles and capillaries), born in Grenaa, Jutland, Denmark (1874-1949)
- Aneurin BevanWelsh-British politician (Member of Parliament, 1929-60; Minister of Health, 1945-51 - launched NHS), born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire, Wales (d. 1960)
- Ruth Nita Barrow1st female Governor-General of Barbados (1990-95), born in Saint Lucy, Barbados (d. 1995)
- David Sidney FeingoldAmerican biochemist and academic (died 2019)
- Rauni-Leena Luukanen-KildeFinnish physician and parapsychologist (died 2015)
- Robert GoodmanBritish child psychiatrist known for developing the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), born in Edgware, England (d. 2025)
- Alexander KvitashviliGeorgian-Ukrainian academic and politician, 19th Ukrainian Minister of Healthcare
Died on this day
- Johann Lukas SchubaurGerman composer and physician, dies at 65
- Daniel RutherfordScottish chemist and physician (isolation of nitrogen in 1772), dies at 70
- James W. WattsAmerican neurosurgeon, developer of the Frontal Lobotomy, dies at 90