June 14 – On This Day in Medical History

Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with June 14.

Events

1935 – Frederic Eugene Basil Foley (1891-1966) first publicly exhibited his self-retaining balloon catheter (Foley catheter) at the American Medical Association meeting in Atlantic City. Foley demonstrated an inflatable intravesical balloon designed to keep a urethral catheter in place while providing bladder drainage (and originally, haemostasis after prostate surgery).

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Births

1851 – Ernst Fuchs (1851-1930), Austrian ophthalmologist; described Fuchs Corneal dystrophy (1910), Fuchs Spots (1901), Fuchs Dellen (aka Fuchs dimples)

1868 – Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943), Austrian-American immunologist; best known for identifying the ABO blood group system (1901)

1901 – Anton Jervell (1901-1987), Norwegian cardiologist; described Jervell and Lange-Nielsen syndrome (JLNS) (1957)

1920 – Charles Theodore Dotter (1920-1985), American radiologist performed the first intentional percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (1964)

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Deaths

1984 – Dmitry Alekseyevich Arapov (1897-1984), Russian military surgeon; described Arapov Contracture (1968)

1961 – Edgar van Nuys Allen (1900-1961), American physician; described the Allen Test (1929) and published the first clinical description of lipedema

2023 – Peter Herbert Beighton (1934-2023) was a British-born physician, clinical geneticist, and medical researcher; defined the Beighton Score (1971)

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Further reading

• Foley FEB. A Hemostatic Bag Catheter: A One Piece Latex Rubber Structure for Control of Bleeding and Constant Drainage Following Prostatic Resection. J Urol 1937; 38(1): 134-139.