September 16 in Medical History
22 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Yankee Mickey Mantle pulls a hamstring muscle while running out a bunt
- Otis Nixon of the Atlanta Braves is suspended for the rest of 1991 due to cocaine use
- 700 million malaria cases prevented in Africa since 2000, according to a report by the University of Oxford in the "Nature" journal
- A report published in "Nature" journal states 3 million people die each year from air pollution, more than from malaria and HIV/AIDS combined
- PM Yoshihide SugaYoshihide Suga confirmed as Prime Minister by the Japanese government after Shinzo Abe stood down due to ill health
- Idaho Department of Health and Welfare says the whole state is now in a hospital resource crisis and will ration healthcare due to the COVID-19 surge
Born on this day
- Samuel CosterDutch physician and playwright (Polyxena), born in Amsterdam, Spanish Netherlands (d. 1665)
- Engelbert KaempferGerman physician and traveler, born in Lemgo, Lippe, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1716)
- Francis Seymour HadenBritish surgeon and etcher, born in London (d. 1910)
- Ludwik TeichmannPolish anatomist (died 1895)
- Anna KingsfordEnglish author, poet, and activist (died 1888)
- Albrecht KosselGerman physician (Nobel 1910), born in Rostock, Germany (d. 1927)
- Clara AyresAmerican nurse (died 1917)
- Karen HorneyGerman-American neo-freudian psychoanalyst, born in Blankenese, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia, German Empire (d. 1952)
- Albert Szent-GyörgyiHungarian biochemist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 1937; isolating vitamin C), born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (d. 1986)
- Julius B. RichmondAmerican physician (12th US Surgeon General, 1977-81), and creator of the Head Start program, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2008)
- Sheila QuinnBritish nurse and adviser (British Red Cross), born in Blackpool, England (d. 2016)
- Karen MuirSouth African swimmer and physician (died 2013)
Died on this day
- John JeffriesAmerican physician and meteorologist (1st balloon flight across English Channel), dies at 75
- Ramón Emeterio BetancesPuerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat, dies at 71
- Ronald RossBritish pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, dies at 75
- Jean-Baptiste CharcotFrench physician and explorer (born 1867)