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1997 Ian Arthur Hoyle Munro, medical journalist, dies at 73

1997 Charles Huggins, surgeon/medical researcher, dies at 95

1996 Michael Geoffrey Corcos, medical researcher, dies at 77

1996 Hugh Joseph Charles James L'Etang, medical writer, dies at 79

1996 Agnes Beatrice Read, medical social worker, dies at 86

1995 Madeleine Gillian Jinkinson, medical administrator, dies at 59

1994 Maggie Will wins Children's Medical Center LPGA Golf Classic

1993 Hetty de Boer-Jongkind, Dutch medical astrologist, dies at 42

1987 L T Coggeshall, medical scientist (Sec of HEW 1956-58), dies at 86

1987 Peter Brian Medawar, medical scientist, dies

1986 Mrs Davina Thompson makse medical history by having the 1st heart, lung and liver transplant (Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England)

1980 Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests

1979 Deposed Shah of Iran arrives in New York for medical treatment

1978 James Daly, actor (Medical Center), dies at 59

1978 Supreme Court orders California medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected

1961 Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62M worth of food and medical supplies

1961 British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive

1951 Hetty de Boer-Jongkind, founder, Vakvereniging Medical Astrology

1950 Ernest Thompson, Bellows Fall Vt, actor, Sierra, Westside Medical

1950 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters)

1949 1st 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School

1948 1st U.S. woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in

1938 1st U.S. law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses

1936 Chad Everett, born in South Bend, Indiana, actor, Medical Center, Airplane II

1936 Madeleine Gillian Jinkinson, medical administrator

1934 George Stamatoyannopoulos, born in Greece, medical genetics researcher

1932 David Plastow, CEO, Medical Research Council

1929 Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady, New York

1926 Donald Acheson, England's chief medical officer

1926 Camillo Golgi, Ital medical research (malaria, Nobel 1906), dies at 81

1924 John Kilgour, director of prison medical services, Home Office

1923 Ian Arthur Hoyle Munro, medical journalist

1921 Rosalyn Yalow, medical physicist

1921 Rosalyn Yalow, famed award winning medical physicist

1920 Israel publishes it's 1st medical journal "Ha-Refuah"

1919 Michael Geoffrey Corcos, medical researcher

1918 James Daly, Wisconsin, actor, Medical Center

1917 Hugh Joseph Charles James L'Etang, medical writer

1914 Jonas Salk, New York City, medical reseacher, polio vaccine

1910 Lord Richardson, president, General Medical Council

1910 Agnes Beatrice Read, medical social worker

1901 Charles Huggins, surgeon/medical researcher

1901 L T Coggeshall, medical scientist/ U.S. Secretary of HEW, 1956-58

1892 Dr. Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes 1st Black medical journal

1884 National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes in Atlanta

1881 Evert Gorter, founder of Dutch medical child care

1876 Meharry Medical College forms at Central Tennesse College

1865 Wilfred Grenfell, England, medical missionary

1864 Rebecca Lee (U.S.) becomes 1st black woman to receive a medical degree

1864 Rebecca Lee, 1st black woman to get a medical degree

1850 1st women's medical school (Women's Medical College of Penns), opens

1850 Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school)

1849 Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman in U.S. to receive medical degree

1848 Female Medical Educational Society forms in Boston

1848 1st U.S. woman's medical school opens (Boston)

1848 1st U.S. homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania

1847 American Medical Association organizes (Phila)

1847 American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)

1833 Samuel A. Mudd, doctor, convicted of giving medical aid to JW Booth

1818 U.S. Medical Corp forms

1815 Horace Wells, dentist, pioneered use of medical anethesia

1812 Marin R Delany, Charlestown, Virginia, 1st black major in U.S. Medical Corp

1804 Simon Style, Fries medical/writer, dies at 73

1799 Joseph Black, Scottish medical/chemist/physicist, dies at 71

1776 Anton de Haen, medical Ratio medendi, dies at 71

1765 1st U.S. medical college opens in Philadelphia

1738 Hermannus Boerhaave, medical/botanist, dies at 69

1704 Anton de Haen, medical expert, Ratio Medendi

1677 Angelus Silesius [Johann Scheffer], German medical/mystic poet, dies

1677 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston

1668 Hermannus Boerhaave, Dutch medical/botanist

1605 Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical, dies at 82

1575 Hadrianus Junius, [Adriaen the Jonghe], medical/historian, dies at 63

1522 Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical

1511 Hadrianus Junius, [Adriaen de Jonghe], medical/historian/humanist



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