October 27 in Medical History
15 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- A deadly smog event begins in Donora, Pennsylvania, eventually killing 20 and sickening thousands.
- Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide
- Indian surgeons successfully separate conjoined twins joined at the head in New Delhi, India
- Organizers of 96th East-West Shrine Bowl college football all-star game, benefiting Shriners Hospitals for Children, announce cancellation of game scheduled for January 23, 2021, in St. Petersburg, Florida, due to COVID-19 issues. The
- WHO confirms Europe is in the midst of a 2nd COVID-19 wave with cases rising rapidly, 30% in a week, deaths rising 40%
Born on this day
- Matthew BaillieScottish Physician (first systematic study of pathology in 1793), born in Shotts Manse, Lanarkshire (d. 1823)
- Alain BombardFrench biologist, physician, and politician who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat to test his theory that a shipwrecked person could survive without provisions, born in Paris (d. 2005)
- Nawal el-SaadawiEgyptian feminist writer and activist, born in Kafr Tahla, Egypt (d. 2021)
Died on this day
- Rhazes [Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī]Persian physician, philosopher, and writer, dies at 60 (death disputed, 925 or 935)
- Michael ServetusSpanish theologian physician, burnt at stake for heresy at Champel near Geneva
- Théodore TuffierFrench surgeon (born 1857)
- Ernest Everett JustAfrican-American embryologist (physiology of development, fertilization, cell division), dies of pancreatic cancer at 58
- James HillmanAmerican psychologist, and educator (C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich), dies from bone cancer at 85
- Leonard HerzenbergAmerican immunologist, geneticist, and academic (born 1931)
- Ranjit Roy ChaudhuryIndian pharmacologist and academic (born 1930)