September 18 in Medical History
14 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day (United States)
Events
- Riots break out in Montreal, Canada, to protest against mandatory smallpox vaccinations
- Daniel David Palmer of Davenport, Iowa, performs the first chiropractic adjustment on partially deaf Harvey Lillard, restoring his hearing
- First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey, in the 2001 anthrax attacks
- World's first mother-to-daughter uterus transplant undertaken at the University of Gothenburg
- Indian government proposes a ban on e-cigarettes
- Covid Pandemic is OverUS President Joe Biden says in a CBS TV interview, “We still have a problem with Covid” and “We’re still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over”
Born on this day
- Justinus KernerGerman physician and medical writer (first detailed description of botulism), born in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (d. 1862)
- Toni WolffSwiss psychologist and author (died 1953)
- Ben CarsonAmerican neurosurgeon, Republican politician and US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, born in Detroit, Michigan
- Uğur ŞahinGerman immunologist (BioNTech - created 1st mRNA-based vaccine for COVID-19), born in İskenderun, Turkey
Died on this day
- Susan La Flesche PicotteAmerican physician (first Native American woman to receive a medical degree), dies of cancer at 50
- Cornelis Adrianus PekelharingDutch physician, physiologist, and academic, at 74
- Ernest SideyBritish air marshal (General of RAF Medical Services, Honorary Surgeon to the Queen), dies at 89