November 23 in Medical History
17 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Female Medical Educational Society forms in Boston
- Post Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco, renamed Letterman General Hospital
- Anti-Beer BillUS President Warren G. Harding signs Willis Campbell Act (Beer Emergency Bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes
- Mercury Confirms AIDsFreddie Mercury (45) confirms he has AIDS the day before he dies
- Gambia bans KhatnaPresident Yahya Jammeh of Gambia bans "Khatna", the Islamic ritual practice of genital mutilation of young girls
- AstraZeneca is the third drugmaker to report an effective vaccine for COVID-19 (62% or 90% effective depending on how it is given) and easy-to make and distribute
Born on this day
- Prospero AlpiniItalian botanist and physician (De Plantis Aegypti liber) known for his study of date palms, born in Marostica, Republic of Venice (d. 1617)
- Johan ScharffenbergNorwegian psychiatrist (died 1965)
- Signe SalénSwedish doctor (died 1963)
- Karl GebhardtNazi doctor (executed for war crimes for conducting experiments on concentration camp inmates), born in Haag in Oberbayern, Germany (d. 1948)
- Lars LeksellSwedish physician, professor of neurosurgery, and inventor of radio surgery, born in Fässberg, Sweden (d. 1986)
- Hugh L'EtangBritish medical writer and editor (The Pathology of Leadership; Ailing Leaders in Power: 1914-1994), born in England (d. 1996)
- Keith AblowAmerican psychiatrist and author, born in Marblehead, Massachusetts
Died on this day
- Walter ReedU.S. Army physician and bacteriologist who proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever, dies at 51
- John Burdon-SandersonEnglish physiologist and academic (born 1828)
- Hawley Harvey Crippen [Dr Crippen]American homeopath and first killer to be caught with the aid of wireless telegraphy, dies by hanging at 48
- Terence EnglishSouth African-British cardiac surgeon who performed the first successful heart transplant in the UK, dies at 93