November 24 in Medical History
15 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- 400 die of respiratory failure and heart attacks in New York City smog, the smoggiest day in the city's history
- International research team publishes the discovery of 1,500 new viruses found in invertebrates
- COVID-19 surge in the US gathers further pace with death toll of 2,200 highest since May and new cases averaging 175,000 a day
- Scotland's parliament votes to become the first country to make period products free
Born on this day
- Dr. Fredrick Arthur WilliusAmerican cardiologist and medical historian, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota (d. 1972)
- Albert Ross TilleyCanadian captain and surgeon (died 1988)
- Bessie Blount GriffinAmerican physical therapist, inventor and forensic scientist (died 2009)
- Franciszek KokotPolish nephrologist and endocrinologist (died 2021)
- Claudio NaranjoChilean psychiatrist (died 2019)
- Sally DaviesEnglish hematologist and academic
- Mona Hanna-AttishaBritish-American pediatrician, professor, and public health advocate
Died on this day
- Ludwik TeichmannPolish anatomist (born 1823)
- Georges ClémenceauFrench Radical-Socialist Party politician (Prime Minister of France, 1906-09, 1917-20) who defended French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus, dies at 88 (1841-1929)
- John WilsonBritish disability campaigner and co-founder of the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind (Sightsavers), dies at 80
- Chris StampBritish music producer, psychodrama therapist and manager (The Who; Jimi Hendrix), dies of cancer at 70