October 31 in Medical History
13 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Dalton Explains Color BlindnessJohn Dalton 's first lecture to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society is titled "Extraordinary Facts Relating to the Vision of Colours," describing his own color blindness, which later becomes known as Daltonism
- Edinburgh-based body snatchers William Burke and William Hare are exposed for murdering 16 people and selling the corpses to medical schools
- Shark Attacks Hamilton While SurfingBethany Hamilton , aged 13, has her arm bitten off by a shark while surfing in Hawaii
Born on this day
- Laura BassiItalian physicist and scholar, born in Bologna, Italy (d. 1778)
- Paolo MantegazzaItalian neurologist and anthropologist, born in Monza, Italy (d. 1910)
- Ian StevensonCanadian-American parapsychologist and reincarnation expert, born in Montreal, Quebec (d. 2007)
- William OrchardAustralian water polo player and psychiatrist (died 2014)
- Jonathan BordenAmerican neurosurgeon and academic
Died on this day
- António José de AlmeidaPortuguese politician and 6th President of Portugal (b. 1866)
- Otto Rank [Rosenfeld]Austria psychoanalyst (Trauma of Geburt), dies
- Mustafa MahmudEgyptian physician and author (born 1921)
- Betty DodsonAmerican feminist, sexologist and writer (Sex for One), dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 91
- Donald LongmoreBritish cardiac surgeon (part of first UK heart transplant team), dies at 95