Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with October 1.
Events
Births
1804 – William Stokes (1804–1878), Irish physician; described Stokes-Adams syndrome (1846); Cheyne-Stokes respiration (1854). Stokes was a key figure in promoting percussion and auscultation as essential diagnostic tools in thoracic medicine
1835 – Ádám Politzer (1835-1920), Hungarian Otolaryngologist; described the Politzer manoeuver (1863), and Politzer bag, test and luminous cone
1879 – Felix Lewandowsky (1879-1921), German dermatologist; described Jadassohn-Lewandowsky syndrome (pachyonychia congenita) (1906), Lewandowsky-Lutz dysplasia (1922), and Lewandowsky Tuberculid (1917)
1894 – Henry Hamilton Bailey (1894-1961), English surgeon; named the Sister Mary Joseph Nodule after Julia Dempsey, nursing superintendent of Saint Mary’s Hospital. Published the influential ‘Bailey & Love’s Short practice of surgery’ with Robert John McNeill Love (1891-1974)
1896 – James Watson Kernohan (1896-1981), Northern Irish born, American neuropathologist; described Kernohan-Woltman notch phenomenon (KWNP) (1928), and Kernohan’s Notch (Motor, Cerebral), and (Optic)
Deaths
1934 – Gaston Labat (1876–1934), Seychellois-born, French-trained physician and pioneer of regional anaesthesia. Inventor of the Labat outfit, Labat spinal needle and Labat approach to sciatic nerve blockade
1999 – George Bushar Markle IV (1921-1999), American surgeon; described the Markle Sign of appendicitis (1973)
Further reading
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