September 5 – On This Day in Medical History

What happened on September 5? Explore notable medical events, breakthroughs, births and deaths from across history in LITFL’s On This Day (OTD)

Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with September 5.

Events

2011Sci-Hub was launched by Alexandra Elbakyan, becoming the most prominent “shadow library” for scholarly articles and a flashpoint in the open-access debate by providing free access to paywalled research at massive scale. Praised by some as a protest against publishing barriers and condemned by others as systematic copyright infringement.


Births

1816 Ernest-Charles Lasègue (1816-1883), French Physician; described Lasègue sign (1864), and Lasègue-Falret syndrome (1877) [*aka Folie à deux] 

1858Eugen von Bamberger (1858-1921), Austrian internist; described Bamberger–Marie syndrome (1889)

1896Rudolf Nissen (1896-1981), German general surgeon; described the Nissen fundoplication


Deaths

No major medical milestones added for this date yet — this page is being expanded


Further reading

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