November 27 in Medical History
15 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset, England
- The first partial human face transplant on a living human is performed by Bernard Devauchelle on Isabelle Dinoire in Amiens, France
- Cricketer Phillip Hughes dies two days after being struck on the head by a bouncer
- Robert Lewis Dear (57) shots 3 dead and wounds 9 at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Born on this day
- Rachel Brooks Gleasonfourth woman to earn a medical degree in the United States (died 1905)
- Charles Scott SherringtonBritish physiologist (Nobel 1932-functions of neurons), born in London (1857-1952)
- Forrest C. ShakleeAmerican chiropractor and founder (Shaklee Products), born in Carlisle, Iowa (d. 1985)
- Fe del MundoFilipino pediatrician and National Scientist of the Philippines, born in Manila, Philippine Islands (d. 2011)
- Frances Swem AndersonAmerican technologist (nuclear medicine), born in Grand Rapids, Michigan (d. 2019)
- John AshworthEnglish biologist and academic (died 2025)
Died on this day
- Manuel Espinosa BatistaPanamanian pharmacist and politician (born 1857)
- Edward BachBritish bacteriologist, homeopathic doctor (Bach flower remedies), dies at 50
- Helene MadisonAmerican swimmer and nurse (born 1913)
- Robert CadeAmerican physician and inventor of Gatorade, dies at 80
- Wanda BłeńskaPolish physician and missionary (born 1911)