September 10 in Medical History
14 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- World Suicide Prevention Day
Events
- Malaysia's National Disaster Management Agency delivers half a million face masks to Sarawak state after more than 930,000 hectares (about 2.3 million acres) burn in Indonesia, causing hazardous levels of air pollution
Born on this day
- Thomas SydenhamEnglish physician and author of "Observationes Medicae", born in Wynford Eagle, Dorset (d. 1689)
- Caspar Bartholin the YoungerDanish anatomist (died 1738)
- William MasonAmerican politician, born in Lebanon, Connecticut (d. 1860)
- Marthe GautierFrench pediatric cardiologist and researcher known for her work identifying the cause of Down Syndrome, born in Île-de-France (d. 2022)
- Jean VanierCanadian philosopher and disabilities advocate, born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 2019)
- Artie TrippAmerican rock percussionist (Mothers Of Invention; Captain Beefheart's Magic Band), and chiropractor, born in Athens, Ohio
- Semyon GluzmanUkrainian psychiatrist and human rights activist (A Manual on Psychiatry for Dissidents, The Fear of Freedom), born in Kyiv, Ukraine (d. 2026)
Died on this day
- David Humphreys StorerAmerican physician and naturalist (born 1804)
- Charles Boucher de BouchervillePremier of Quebec, dies at 93
- Norman FarberowAmerican psychologist and academic (born 1918)
- Ian WilmutBritish embryologist (born 1944)
- Phyllis GardnerAmerican pharmacology professor and noted critic of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos, dies of a heart attack at 75