September 30 in Medical History
16 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Events
- Anesthetic ether is used for the first time by American dentist Dr. William Morton to extract a tooth
- American chemist Percy L. Julian at the Glidden Company announces an improved method for producing cortisone
- A case of the Ebola virus reaches Dallas, Texas
- Spanish government orders a COVID-19 lockdown in Madrid and surrounding areas after a rapid rise in cases
Born on this day
- Geronimo MercurialiItalian philologist and physician, wrote the first book on sports medicine "De Arte Gymnastica", born in Forlì, Italy (d. 1606)
- Girolamo MercurialeItalian philologist and physician (died 1606)
- John RaeScottish physician and explorer (died 1893)
- Charlotte WolffGerman-English physician and psychotherapist (died 1986)
- Felix KerstenBaltic-German Finnish masseuse physical therapist and personal trainer to Heinrich Himmler who helped save people from Finns from Nazi persecution, born in Tartu, Imperial Russia (d. 1960)
- Gustave GilbertAmerican psychologist (died 1977)
- Barry MarshallAustralian physician, (1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery bacterium Helicobacter pylori causes peptic ulcers), born in Kalgoorlie, Australia
Died on this day
- Andre Michel LwoffFrench physiologist (1965 Noble Prize in Medicine or Physiology for discoveries of genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis), dies at 92
- Richard SchilingBritish professor of occupational health, dies at 86
- Patrick SellorsBritish ophthalmologist and Surgeon-Oculist to the Queen, dies at 76
- Ralph M. SteinmanCanadian-American immunologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1943)
- Nigel LattaNew Zealand clinical psychologist, author and television presenter (Beyond the Darklands, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Parenting), dies of cancer at 58