October 16 in Medical History
16 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- American physician William T. G. Morton gives the first public demonstration of the use of ether, allowing surgeon John Collins Warren to remove a tumor painlessly from the neck of Edward Abbott at Massachusetts General Hospital
- First US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania
- 1st Birth Control ClinicMargaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic in the US at 46 Amboy St, Brooklyn
- Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox.
- Dallas Mavericks' Roy Tarpley becomes the seventh player to be banned from the NBA for life under the league's anti-drug agreement
- "Addams Family" actor Raul Julia suffers a stroke
- 28 Days Later"28 Days Later," directed by Danny Boyle and starring Cillian Murphy , premieres in London
Born on this day
- Albrecht von HallerSwiss experimental physiologist, biologist and author (Acadamy of Science), born in Bern, Switzerland (d. 1777)
- William BurtonAmerican politician, 39th Governor of Delaware (1859-63), born in Indian River Hundred, Delaware (d. 1866)
- Armin T. WegnerGerman medic, photographer, writer, and civil rights activist (documented the Armenian Genocide), born in Eberfeld, Germany (d. 1978)
- Lucien PaiementCanadian physician and politician (died 2013)
Died on this day
- Joseph Solomon DelmedigoItalian physician, mathematician, and music theorist, dies at 64
- John HunterScottish surgeon and founder of pathological anatomy in England, dies at 65
- Hans SelyeAustrian-Canadian endocrinologist, dies at 75
- Ismond RosenSouth African born British psychoanalyst and artist, dies at 82
- William JamesAustralian general and physician (born 1930)