September 25 in Medical History
21 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- British physician Dr. Charles Drysdale warns against the use of tobacco in a letter to The Times newspaper in one of the earliest public health announcements on the dangers of smoking
- Wilson's BreakdownUS President Woodrow Wilson suffers a breakdown in Pueblo, Colorado; his health never recovers
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek HouseDutch Queen mother Emma opens cancer hospital Antonie van Leeuwenhoek House in Amsterdam
- Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.
- Medical drama "ER" is performed live on TV
- Singapore closes schools due to hazardous levels of air pollution from fires in Indonesia
- Australia's Capital Territory becomes the first state in Australia to legalize recreational marijuana
- Oaxaca becomes the second Mexican state to decriminalize abortion, during the first 12 weeks
Born on this day
- Claude PerraultFrench physician and architect (East Façade of the Louvre; Paris Observatory), born in Paris (d. 1688)
- Thomas Hunt MorganAmerican evolutionary biologist, geneticist and embryologist (Nobel Prize 1933), born in Lexington, Kentucky (d. 1945)
- Joep LangeDutch physician and academic (died 2014)
- Curtis BuckleyAmerican football player and psychiatrist
Died on this day
- Caspar PeucerGerman reformer (b. 1525)
- Carl Reinhold August WunderlichGerman physician ( established normal temperature as 37 °C (98.6 °F), dies at 62
- Hans EppingerAustrian physician (born 1879)
- William Cumming RoseAmerican biochemist who discovered threonine (an amino acid), dies at 98
- Bessie DelanyAmerican dentist and civil rights pioneer (Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years), dies at 104
- Annie Elizabeth DelanyAmerican dentist and author (born 1891)
- M. Scott PeckAmerican psychiatrist and writer (The Road Less Traveled), dies at 69
- Haidar Abdel-ShafiPalestinian physician and political leader, head of the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid Conference (1991), dies from cancer at 88
- Bennet WongCanadian psychiatrist and academic, co-founded Haven Institute (Gabriola Island, Canada) (born 1930)