MICA History On this day 365 days of medical history Campus map 18 October — On this day in medicine Operating room in New York, circa 1899. Contextual archival photograph, not the event described. Credit and rights Byron Company / Museum of the City of New York / Wikimedia Commons · Domaine public · photographie de 1899
Original source · Licence American biologist Craig C. Mello, later joint recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of RNA interference, was born on 18 October 1960.
Discover Electrocardiograph at the National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart, London, 1922. Contextual archive photograph. Credit and rights Wellcome Collection · Iconographic Collections V0030859 / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0 · photographie d’archives conservée par Wellcome
Original source · Licence French dermatologist and syphilologist Louis Auguste Queyrat, associated with the description of the erythroplasia bearing his name, died in Paris on 18 October 1933.
Discover Operating room in New York, circa 1899. Contextual archival photograph, not the event described. Credit and rights Byron Company / Museum of the City of New York / Wikimedia Commons · Domaine public · photographie de 1899
Original source · Licence American surgeon and inventor Karl Albert Connell, designer of anaesthesia equipment and the Connell oropharyngeal airway, died on 18 October 1941.
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