September 8 in Medical History
20 entries: discoveries, epidemics, drugs and the people who shaped medicine.
Observed today
- Christian Feast Day: — Our Lady of Good Health of Vailankanni
- World Physical Therapy Day
Events
- Nashville-based guitar wizard Hank Garland sustains career-ending injuries in a single vehicle accident near Springfield, Tennessee
- Inés Cuervo de Prieto, 34, gives birth to quintuplets, all boys, in Venezuela
- Kuhn Suspends JenkinsBowie Kuhn suspends Ferguson Jenkins indefinitely after being arrested in Toronto for possession of drugs
Born on this day
- Ida Henrietta HydeAmerican physiologist who invented the micro-electrode and the first woman allowed to do research at Harvard Medical School and to be elected to the American Physiology Society, born in Davenport, Iowa (d. 1945)
- Refik SaydamTurkish physician and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Turkey (died 1942)
- Sivananda SaraswatiHindu monk, spiritual leader, physician, proponent of Vedanta, etc. (died 1963)
- Robert W. FirestoneAmerican clinical psychologist, and author (Fear of Intimacy), born in Brooklyn, New York City
- Paul M. FleissAmerican controversial pediatrician and father of Heidi Fleiss, born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2014)
- Aziz SancarTurkish-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- Nidal HasanAmerican soldier, psychiatrist, and mass murderer
Died on this day
- Robert FluddEnglish physician, mystical philosopher and composer, dies at 63
- Michel SarrazinFrench surgeon and naturalist (kings doctor in New France, discovered sarsaparilla), dies at 75
- Hermann von HelmholtzGerman physician and physicist, dies at 73
- Carl WeissAmerican physician who shot US Senator Huey Long, shot at least 60 times and killed by the senator's bodyguards at 28
- Rıza NurTurkish surgeon and politician (born 1879)
- John Franklin EndersAmerican microbiologist (1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for culturing poliovirus, developed measles vaccine), dies at 88
- Thomas SzaszHungarian-American psychiatrist and academic (born 1920)
- Monique BéginFrench Canadian politician and academic who fought for universal healthcare and women's equality (Ladies, Upstairs), dies at 87