1926 - Medicine

Medicine

Ergotism from infected rye breaks out in the Soviet Union; in some areas half the population is affected (see 1862; 1951; LSD, 1943).

Nobel cytologist Camillo Golgi dies at Pavia January 21 at age 82; popular psychologist Emile Coué at Nancy, France, July 2 at age 69; psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin at Munich October 7 at age 70.