November 5 in Medical History
15 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Child suicide rate in Japan at 30-year high with 250 taking their lives 2016/17 according to Government Ministry
- NFL Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers admits in interview he is unvaccinated and taking unapproved treatment after testing positive for COVID-19 and in isolation
Born on this day
- Joachim CamerariusGerman botanist (horticulture catalog) and physician, born in Nuremberg, Germany (d. 1598)
- William BlandAustralian surgeon and politician (died 1868)
- J. B. S. HaldaneBritish-Indian geneticist (primordial soup theory), born in Oxford, England (d. 1964)
- George SheehanAmerican doctor, athlete and author ("Running & Being: The Total Experience," NY Times best seller), born in Brooklyn, NY (d. 1993)
- Ian MunroBritish medical journalist, humanitarian and cricketer, born in Bradford, England (d. 1997)
- Leonard HerzenbergAmerican immunologist, geneticist and academic (died 2013)
- Atul GawandeAmerican surgeon and journalist
Died on this day
- Bernardino RamazziniItalian physician (founder of occupational medicine), dies at 81
- Motoori NorinagaJapanese physician, scholar, and writer (Kojiki-den (Commentaries on the Kojiki)), dies at 71
- Christiaan EijkmanDutch physician and bacteriologist ( Nobel Prize in Medicine 1929), dies at 72 (1858-1930)
- Mary W. BachelerAmerican physician and Baptist medical missionary (born 1860)
- Alexis CarrelFrench surgeon, sociologist and biologist (Nobel 1912), dies at 71
- Edward L TatumAmerican molecular geneticist and biochemist (Nobel Prize 1958), dies of heart failure at 65