October 13 in Medical History
11 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- Paramedics' Day (Poland)
Events
- Rock vocalist Neil Young undergoes throat surgery
- First electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle is obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, working at the CDC
- During NLCS, Cards rookie Vince Coleman is injured stretching before game as his left leg is caught in Busch Stadium's automated tarpaulin
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Kary Mullis & Michael Smith
- Basketball player Lamar Odom is hospitalised after being found unconscious in a brothel in Nevada
- Ringo Starr cancels five remaining scheduled All-Starr Band tour concert dates in California and Mexico, after getting rebound COVID-19 infection
Born on this day
- Horace H. Hayden1st American licensed dentist and cofounds 1st dental college, born in Windsor, Connecticut (d. 1844)
- Rudolf VirchowGerman politician, anthropologist and pathologist (cell pathology), born in Schivelbein, Prussia (1821-1902)
- James H. SalisburyAmerican physician, inventor of the Salisbury steak and an early supporter of germ theory, born in Scott, New York (d. 1905)
Died on this day
- Paul Hermann MüllerSwiss chemist (1948 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering effects of DDT), dies at 66