Alexis St. Martin, who had been shot in the stomach, was first treated by US Army surgeon William Beaumont who became known as the ‘Father of Gastric Physiology’.
Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was confined to permanent quarantine on North Brother Island in New York.
Blackwell graduated first in her class and became the first woman to achieve a medical degree in the United States.
Justice Harry Blackmun wrote the majority opinion that the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution gives women in the United States the ‘fundamental’ freedom choice in family matters, including whether or not to have an abortion.
Dr James Hiram Bedford became the first human to be cryonically preserved.
The first well-publicised public demonstration of inhaled ether anaesthesia was given at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
An iron lung respirator was used for the first time at Boston Children’s Hospital.
On the 11th September 1978, Janet Parker became the last recorded person in the world to die from smallpox.
Josef Mengele, the Nazi ‘Angel Of Death’, was transferred to begin work at Auschwitz concentration camp.
A potential diphtheria epidemic in Alaska was avoided after a dogsled relay transported vials of antitoxin 674 miles in five and a half days in “Great Race of Mercy”.
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