Important MediDates
JANUARY
9, 1929
Alexander Fleming
uses a penicillin broth to successfully treat his
assistant Stuart Craddick's infection.
JANUARY 11,
1922
At a Toronto
hospital in Canada, 14-year old Leonard Thompson, a
diabetic, becomes the first person to be successfully
treated with insulin.
JANUARY 11, 1974
The first
sextuplets are born to Sue Rosenkowitz of Cape
Town, South Africa.
FEBRUARY 6,1804
Clergyman Joseph
Priestley, the man who had discovered oxygen breathes
his last.
FEBRUARY 8,1926
The death of
William Bateson, the English biologist who helped to
found the science of genetics.
FEBRUARY 10, 1897
The birth of
John Franklin Enders, the US microbiologist who, with
Thomas Weller and Fredrick Robins, would perfect a
vaccine against polio.
FEBRUARY 10, 1923
The death of
Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen, the Gennan physicist who
discovered X-rays.
F'EBRUARY 11, 1799
Italian biologist
Lazaro Spallanzani who in 1780 had demonstrated the true
nature of digestion, the function of spermatozoa and ova,
and discovered artificial insemination, dies.
FEBRUARY 12, 1637
The birth of Jan
Swammerdam the Dutch naturalist who would be the
first to describe red blood vessels and the valves in the
lymph vessels.
FEBRUARY 13, 1969
It is
announced that ova from a volunteer have been fertilised
in a test tube, following pioneering work by Dr Patrick
Steptoe.
FEBRUARY 17, 1781
Rene Laennee,
the French army doctor who invented the stethoscope is
born.
FEBRUARY 28, 1683
French naturalist
Rene Reaumur who would go on to invent the
thermometer, is born.
FEBRUARY 21,1999
Gertrude Belle Elion, who shared the Nobel Prize
for Medicine for research that led to AIDS-fighting
drugs, died Sunday 21, Feb. 1999. She was 81. Elion
worked on several lifesaving medications during her
career as a medical researcher, and in 1988 she and
colleague George Hitchings, whom she worked with for 40
years, won the Nobel Prize for their research leading to
drugs for AIDS, herpes, leukemia and malaria. Born in New
York City, Elion received a bachelor's degree from Hunter
College in New York in 1937 and a master's degree in
chemistry from New York University in 1941.
MARCH 17, 1921
The first Birth Control Clinic run by Dr. Marie Stopes
opens in London.
MARCH 27, 1845
Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen was born on this day. He
discovered Electro-megnatic Rays. ( X - rays ) and was
awarded Nobel Prise for this.
MARCH 27, 1914
First successful blood transfusion takes place in a
hospital in Brussels, Belgium.
MARCH 30, 1842
Ether was use for the first time as an anaesthetic by Dr.
Crawford Long in Jefferson, Georgia, U.S.A. to remove a
cyst from the neck of a student.
APRIL 7, 1928
James Watson is born in the USA. He built the first model
DNA molecule and made discoveries concerning genetic
coding.
APRIL 7, 1943
LSD ( lysergic acid diethylamide )is synthesized by
Albert Hoffman in his laboratory in Switzerland.
APRIL 10, 1755
The founder of Homeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann is born in
Germany.
APRIL 11, 1775
James Parkinson was born. Physician who gave his name to
Parkinson's Disease. He was also the first to realize
that perforated Appendix could cause death.
APRIL 14, 1914
Dr. Harry Plotz discovers the typhus vaccine, in New
York.
APRIL 27, 1968
Abortion is legalized in Britain as result of Abortion
Act.
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