September 14 in Medical History
18 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- First prefrontal lobotomy in America performed by Walter Freeman and James W. Watts at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C.
- Mary Ann Fischer of Aberdeen, South Dakota, gives birth to America's first surviving quintuplets, four girls and a boy
- Charlie and AlgernonCharles Strouse and David Rogers' musical "Charlie and Algernon," based on the book "Flowers for Algernon," opens at the Helen Hayes Theatre in NYC; runs for 17 performances
- Selena Gomez reveals she had a kidney transplant, because of lupus, donated by her friend Francia Rais
- Former Welsh rugby union and league player Gareth Thomas reveals he is HIV positive
- Israel becomes the first country to announce a second national lockdown due to COVID-19, for 3 weeks
- Jakarta, Indonesia's biggest city of 10 million, imposes widespread restrictions again, amid warnings the healthcare system is on the verge of collapse
- WHO reports largest-ever one-day COVID-19 case rise of 307,930, daily death toll of 5,500, overall death total is 917,417
- One in 500 Americans has died of COVID-19 as the nation's known death toll reaches 663,913 (Johns Hopkins)
Born on this day
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von NettesheimGerman royal astrologer, physician and theologian, born in Cologne, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1535)
- Julia PlattAmerican embryologist and politician (died 1935)
- Margaret SangerAmerican nurse , birth control proponent and feminist, born in Corning, New York (1879-1966)
- Abioseh NicolSierra Leonean-English physician, academic, and diplomat (died 1994)
- Ferid MuradAmerican physician and pharmacologist (Nobel Prize for Medicine - 1998), born in Whiting, Indiana (d. 2023)
Died on this day
- Lombe AtthillNorthern Irish obstetrician and gynaecologist (born 1827)
- Paul Joseph James MartinCanadian politician, often called the 'Father of Medicare' as Minister of National Health and Welfare, dies at 89
- Barbara Mary AnsellUK founder of paediatric rheumatology, dies at 78
- William BerenbergAmerican physician (b. 1915)