November 2 in Medical History
13 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Entertainer Lola Falana is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis
- Actor Roger Moore (James Bond) has his enlarged prostate removed
Born on this day
- John Light AtleeAmerican physician and surgeon (died 1885)
- Mahendralal SarkarIndian homeopath doctor and founder of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, born in Paikpara village, Howrah, India (d. 1904)
- Joseph BabinskiPolish-French neurologist (Babinski reflex), born in Paris (d. 1932)
- Shere Hite [Shirley Diana Gregory]American-German sex therapist (The Hite Report), born in St Joseph, Missouri (d. 2020)
Died on this day
- Engelbert KaempferGerman physician and traveler, dies at 65
- Albert von KöllikerSwiss anatomist and histologist (one of the first to interpret tissue structure in terms of cellular elements), dies at 88
- Julius H. HessAmerican physician who is often considered the father of American neonatology (Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago), dies at 79
- David FeinbergAmerican AIDS activist and author, dies at 37
- John Francis BurkeAmerican surgeon and co-inventor of artificial skin, dies of cancer at 89
- Han SuyinChinese-Swiss physician and author (born 1916)
- Joan Tisch [née Hyman]American billionaire, philanthropist and volunteer with the Gay Men's Health Crisis, dies at 90