Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with January 10.

Events

1946 – Ivor Lewis (1895–1982) delivered his Hunterian Lecture on the surgical treatment of carcinoma of the oesophagus at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, known eponymously as the Ivor Lewis procedure

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Births

1843 – Alfred Lewis Galabin (1843-1913), English obstetric physician. Recognized for his first documentation of AV block in humans and his two textbooks: Diseases of Women (1879) and A Manual of Midwifery (1886)

1866 – Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff (1866-1942), German physician and pathologist. Described Rokitansky–Aschoff sinuses (1842, 1905), Aschoff bodies (1904), and Aschoff-Tawara node (1906) [AV node]

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Deaths

1878 – 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

1925 – Ernst Adolf Gustav Gottfried von Strümpell (1853-1925) was a German neurologist. Described Strümpell Signs (1899), collection of clinical signs found in patients with pyramidal tract lesions

1942 – Graham Steell (1851-1942), Scottish physician and cardiologist; described the Graham Steell murmur (1888)

1975 – Ross Golden (1889-1975), American radiologist. Described the Golden S sign (1925) a radiological sign which should raise suspicion of bronchial carcinoma

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Further reading

• Lewis I. The surgical treatment of carcinoma of the oesophagus; with special reference to a new operation for growths of the middle third. Br J Surg. 1946 Jul;34:18-31.