September 24 in Medical History
21 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- Mahidol Day (Thailand)
Events
- First autopsy and coroner's jury verdict are recorded in Maryland
- Dutch Minister of Justice Leendert Donker commutes Nazi war criminal Willy Lages' execution sentence to life in prison; Lages is released in 1966 due to failing health and lives for 5 more years
- Eisenhower Suffers Heart AttackUS President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver
- New York Mets manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack
- Johnson Runs Gold Before DisqualificationCanadian sprinter Ben Johnson breaks his own 100m world record with a time of 9.79 at the Seoul Olympics but is disqualified 3 days later for the use of the drug stanozolol; Carl Lewis is awarded gold and the world record with a time of 9.92
- Ebola virus has caused 69 deaths and sickened 150 people according to Ministry of Heath in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Protests outside the Indonesian parliament and elsewhere over proposed new laws banning sex before marriage, abortion, and insulting the president
Born on this day
- Girolamo CardanoItalian mathematician and astrologer (Ars Magna-1545), born in Pavia, Italy (1501-1576)
- Edward BachBritish bacteriologist, homeopathic doctor (Bach flower remedies), born in Moseley, Worcestershire, England (d. 1936)
- André F. CournandFrench physician and physiologist (Nobel 1956), born in Paris (d. 1988)
- Howard FloreyAustralian pathologist and pharmacologist who purified penicillin ( Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1945), born in Adelaide, South Australia (1898-1968)
- Alexandra AdlerAustrian neurologist and psychologist (died 2001)
- Severo OchoaSpanish-American physician and biochemist (Nobel 1959), born in Luarca, Asturias, Spain (d. 1993)
- Autar Singh PaintalIndian medical scientist, born in Mogok, Myanmar (d. 2004)
Died on this day
- ParacelsusSwiss physician and alchemist (Zinc, Laudanum), dies at 47 (1493-1541)
- Niels Ryberg FinsenDanish physician and phototherapist (Nobel 1903), dies at 43
- Warren Sturgis McCullochAmerican neurophysiologist and psychiatrist ("A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity" with Walter Pitts), dies at 70
- Josué de CastroBrazilian physician, geographer, and activist (born 1908)
- Margot TurnerBritish nurse and nursing administrator (whose account as a prisoner-of-war in Japanese camp inspired TV series "Tenko"), dies at 83
- Boris KarvasarskyUkrainian-Russian psychiatrist and author (born 1931)