November 4 in Medical History
18 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- American inventor Benjamin Palmer from Meredith, New Hampshire, patents the artificial leg
- Sir James Young Simpson, a Scottish medical doctor, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
- Dentist John Beers of San Francisco patents the gold crown
- Dr George Nichopoulas is acquitted of overprescribing addictive drugs for Elvis Presley
- American "Deftones" bassist Chi Cheng (38) suffers serious injuries in an automobile crash in Santa Clara, California, as a seatbelt-less passenger, dying 4-1/2 years later
- Major investigation finds unsafe lead levels in 11 Canadian cities between 2014 and 2018 mostly due to antiquated pipes
- WHO says Europe is again the Epicenter for COVID-19 after cases rise 50% in a month
Born on this day
- Anna BayerováCzech medical doctor (died 1924)
- Ranjit Roy ChaudhuryIndian pharmacologist and academic (died 2015)
- Patricia BathAmerican ophthalmologist (invented laser cataract surgery), born in New York City (d. 2019)
- Marvel WilliamsonAmerican healthcare educator, and writer, born in Holton, Kansas
- David JuliusAmerican physiologist (2021 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for receptors for temperature and touch), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Daniel BahrGerman banker and politician, German Federal Minister of Health
Died on this day
- Rasmus BartholinDanish physician, mathematician and physicist, dies at 73
- William ShippenAmerican physician and delegate to the Continental Congress, dies at 89
- Jean-Louis-Marc AlibertFrench dermatologist, dies at 69
- Richard Hooker [H. Richard Hornberger Jr.]American surgeon and author of M*A*S*H, dies of leukemia at 73
- Michael CrichtonAmerican novelist (Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, The Great Train Robbery), screenwriter, and television and film producer (ER, Twister, Looker), dies of cancer at 66 (1942-2008)