September 22 in Medical History
20 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- L'amour MedecinMoliere 's comedic play "L'amour Medecin" premieres for King Louis XIV at Versailles
- Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs
- MLB St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Leon Durham is suspended for 60 days due to drugs
- New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (NY MTA) removes 6,000 ads for "Dr. Tusch" (Dr. Jeffrey Lavigne)
- America's COVID-19 death toll surpasses 200,000, more than any other country
- Britain Imposes New RestrictionsPM Boris Johnson announces that the UK has reached a "perilous turning point" in the COVID-19 pandemic as he introduces new restrictions
- WHO warns urgent action is needed on air pollution, which is on par with smoking and a poor diet, causing seven million premature deaths a year
Born on this day
- Jean-Étienne GuettardFrench physician and scientist, 1st to map geological features of France, born in Étampes, France (d. 1786)
- Bernardino António GomesPortuguese physician and naturalist (died 1877)
- Charles HugginsAmerican-Canadian physician and cancer researcher (1966 Nobel Prize), born in Halifax, Nova Scotia (d. 1997)
- Dannie AbseWelsh poet and writer, born in Cardiff, Wales (d. 2014)
- Liam FoxScottish physician and politician, Secretary of State for Defence
- Robert SatcherAmerican physician, engineer, and astronaut
Died on this day
- Heinrich Christian PanderBaltic German biologist and embryologist, dies at 71
- Melanie KleinAustrian-British author and child psychoanalyst (object relations theory), dies at 78
- Alice HamiltonAmerican physician, scientist and social advocate (workmen's compensation laws, occupational illnesses), dies at 101
- Rais AmrohviPakistani poet and psychoanalyst, dies at 74
- Jan Hendrik van den BergDutch psychiatrist and academic (born 1914)
- David H. HubelCanadian-born American neurologist, 1981 Nobel Prize for "discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system", dies at 87
- Jonathan LearAmerican philosopher and psychoanalyst (Radical Hope, Love and Its Place in Nature), dies at 76