October 3 in Medical History
23 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Edgar Allan Poe's Mysterious DemiseAmerican author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death
- Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan.
- Yoshinori Ohsumi from Japan wins the Nobel Prize in Medicine for research into autophagy
- 259 people have died taking selfies since 2011, according to a study in the "Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care"
- Cervical cancer could be eliminated in Australia within decades because of a government vaccination program, according to a report in "The Lancet Public Health"
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Frances Arnold, Gregory Winter, and George Smith for their use of evolution to produce new enzymes and antibodies
- Kawhi Leonard returns from injury in a preseason win over the Portland Trail Blazers
- Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Svante Pääbo for "discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution," including sequencing the genome of the Neanderthal
- Ringo Starr postpones five dates of his All-Starr Band tour in Canada due to testing positive for COVID-19
Born on this day
- Patrick MansonScottish physician and parasitologist (Father of tropical medicine), born in Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (d. 1922)
- James Jackson PutnamAmerican neurologist and academic (died 1918)
- William Crawford GorgasAmerican physician and 22nd Surgeon-General of the U.S. Army (help cure yellow fever), born in Toulminville, Alabama (d. 1920)
- Clara NoyesAmerican nurse (head of the American Red Cross WW1), born in Port Deposit, Maryland (d. 1936)
- Josephine Riley Matthews "Mama Jo"African-American midwife (delivered over 1300 babies), born in Aiken, South Carolina (d. 1993)
- Ernst-Günther SchenckGerman colonel and physician (died 1998)
- Terence EnglishSouth African-British cardiac surgeon who performed the first successful heart transplant in the UK, born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa (d. 2025)
Died on this day
- Jean-Baptiste DenysFrench physician who performed the 1st human blood transfusion, a xenotransfusion, dies at about 61
- Lucy Hobbs Taylor1st American woman dentist (1866), and women's rights activist, dies at 77
- Rolf Maximilian SievertSwedish physicist and academic (born 1896)
- Joseph WybranBelgian physician and Jewish leader, murdered in mysterious circumstances at 49
- Lucilla AndrewsEgyptian-Scottish nurse and author (born 1919)
- Benedict GroeschelAmerican priest, psychologist, and talk show host (born 1933)
- Michel JouvetFrench neuroscientist and medical researcher who discovered the region of the brain that controls rapid eye movement (REM sleep), dies at 91