October 23 in Medical History
13 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- One of the first modern plastic surgeries in the West is performed by Joseph Carpue on a soldier's nose in England using Indian techniques
- Husband and wife Carl Cori and Gerty Cori are the first spouses to be awarded joint Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of the catalytic conversion of glycogen, alongside Bernardo Alberto Houssay
- Punk rock singer Sid Vicious attempts suicide while at Riker's Detention Center in NYC
- Dr Jack Kevorkian 's suicide machine assists 2 women to commit suicide
- Microplastics found in human stools for the first time by Austrian scientists
Born on this day
- Moritz KaposiHungarian dermatologist (died 1902)
- Sanjay GuptaAmerican neurosurgeon and medical reporter (CNN), born in Novi, Michigan
Died on this day
- Michael NeanderGerman mathematician and astronomer, dies at 52
- Edwin KlebsGerman physician and bacteriologist (bacterial theory of infection, diphtheria bacillus), dies at 79
- W. G. GraceEnglish cricket batsman and captain (22 Tests; 2 x 100, HS 170; 54,896 runs over record 44 FC seasons; Gloucestershire CCC), dies of a heart attack at 67 (1848-1915)
- Zane GreyAmerican western novelist (Spirit of the Border), dies at 67
- Edward Adelbert DoisyAmerican biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1893)
- Barnett SlepianAmerican physician, murdered in his Amherst, New York home by anti-abortionist James Charles Kopp, at 52