Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with August 14.
Events
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Births
1724 – Claude Pouteau (1724–1775), French surgeon; described Pouteau fracture (1760) [Pouteau-Colles or Colles fracture]
1877 – Johan Henning Waldenström (1877-1972), Swedish Orthopaedic surgeon; described Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD) in 1909
1882 – Vivian Bartley Green-Armytage (1882–1961), English gynaecologist; designed the Green-Armytage Forceps (1937)
1886 – Charles Frederick Morris Saint (1886-1973), English-born South African surgeon; described Saint’s triad (1946)
1896 – Benjamin Sacks (1896-1971), American physician; described Libman-Sacks endocarditis (1924)
1934 – Yvonne Edna Cossart (1934-2014), Australian virologist; described Parvovirus B19 (1975)
Deaths
1946– Charles Edwin Woods (1888-1946), American obstetrician and gynaecologist; described Woods Screw Manoeuvre (1943)
1981 – Francis Garrett Pipkin (1904-1981), American orthopedic surgeon; described Pipkin classification of femoral head fracture (1957)
Further reading
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