October 22 in Medical History
30 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- International Stuttering Awareness Day
Events
- The Punch that Killed Harry HoudiniBoxer J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in his dressing room at the Princess Theater in Montreal. The attack started or helped cause the appendicitis that would take Houdini 's life 9 days later.
- Shah Arrives in NYCDeposed Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi arrives in NYC for medical treatment
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved aspartame artificial sweetener for tabletop use following years of scrutiny
- US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor survives breast cancer surgery
- NHL superstar Wayne Gretzky 's wife Janet is knocked unconscious and gets 2 stitches after plexiglass falls on her watching a game
- Actress Selma Blair reveals she has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis
- Legislation for Northern Ireland legalizing same-sex marriage and abortion comes into effect
- US drug company Biogen claims to have created 1st drug to slow advance of Alzheimer's disease called aducanumab
- The NHL announces the annual All-Star Game and the All-Star Skills Competition will be postponed to no earlier than 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic
- Australian city of Melbourne "world's most locked down city" exits its sixth lockdown after a total of 260 days
Born on this day
- Georg Ernst StahlGerman chemist and physician (died 1734)
- Magnus HussSwedish physician who coined the word alcoholism and was the first to define it as a disease, born in Torps, Västernorrland county, Sweden (d. 1890)
- Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria (died 1949)Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria (died 1949)
- Charles Glen KingAmerican biochemist and pioneer of nutrition research who isolated vitamin C, born in Entiat, Washington (d. 1988)
- George BeadleAmerican geneticist (biochemical genetics - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1958), born in Wahoo, Nebraska (d. 1989)
- Timothy LearyAmerican psychologist & advocate for psychedelic drug use, born in Springfield, Massachusetts (d. 1996)
- Deepak ChopraIndian-American author (Perfect Health, Quantum Healing, Super Brain), New Age guru, and alternative medicine advocate, born in New Delhi, British India
Died on this day
- Ernst von Fleischl-MarxowAustrian physiologist (b. 1846)
- Charles Pardey Lukisfounder of the Indian Journal of Medical Research and later Director-General of the Indian Medical Service (born 1857)
- Ettore MarchiafavaItalian physician (born 1847)
- Ernst RüdinSwiss-German psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist, dies at 78
- Elvin M. JellinekAmerican physiologist and pioneer in the study of alcoholism, dies at 73
- Mieko KamiyaJapanese psychiatrist and author (born 1914)
- Albert Szent-GyörgyiHungarian biochemist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1937; isolating vitamin C), dies at 93
- Elie A Cohenphysician (held in Auschwitz), dies at 84
- Rollo MayAmerican psychologist (Love & Will), dies at 85
- John PostgateEnglish microbiologist, author, and academic (born 1922)
- Arnold KleinAmerican dermatologist and author (born 1945)
- Richard A. CashAmerican global health researcher (born 1941)