September 26 in Medical History
19 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- Christian feast days: — Cosmas and Damian
Events
- New Jersey passes a bill requiring a license to practice medicine
- Professor Youngblood demonstrates an artificial heart in Paris
- World Health Organization estimates that the Ebola death toll has reached 3,091, with Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone hit hardest
- Abortion is decriminalized in New South Wales, the last remaining Australian state to do so
- WHO announces 800,000 children in DR Congo will be vaccinated in nine days in the world's largest measles epidemic that has taken over 3,500 lives
Born on this day
- Cosme ArgerichArgentine physician and founder of the Medicine School of Buenos Aires, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1820)
- Ivan PavlovRussian physiologist and pioneer in psychology (Nobel Prize 1904), born in Ryazan, Russia [O.S. September 14] (1849-1936)
- Ugo CerlettiItalian neurologist (discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy), born in Conegliano, Italy (d. 1963)
- Bertha De VrieseBelgian physician (died 1958)
- Archibald HillEnglish physiologist, academic, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1977)
- Robert CadeAmerican physician and inventor of Gatorade, born in San Antonio, Texas (d. 2007)
- Douglas A. MeltonAmerican biologist and academic
Died on this day
- Gottfried von HagenauAlsatian theologian, medical doctor, and poet
- Cecco d'AscoliItalian encyclopaedist, physician and poet (born 1257)
- John Oliver CurranIrish physician (born 1819)
- Ben Shlomo Lipman-HeilprinPolish-Israeli neurologist and physician (born 1902)
- Philip RandleBritish biochemist (Randle cycle), dies at 80
- Sidney PhillipsAmerican soldier, physician, and author (born 1924)