Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with January 11.

Events

1922 – Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941) and and his research assistant Charles Best injected insulin into Leonard Thompson, a fourteen-year-old dying of diabetes in Toronto General Hospital.

2002 – Australian toxinologist and larrikin, Struan Sutherland (1936-2002) wrote his own funeral notice

Struan would like to inform his friends and acquaintances that he fell off his perch on Friday, 11th January, 2002. No flowers please. Donations to Australian Venom Research Unit, Melbourne University

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Births

1814 – Sir James Paget (1814-1899), English surgeon. Multiple eponyms including Paget-Schroetter Syndrome (1858), Paget’s disease of the nipple (1874), and Paget’s disease of bone (1877)

1864 – Robert Meyer (1864-1947), gynaecologist and pathologist. Described the Weigert-Meyer rule (1907) regarding ureter duplication insertion.

1871 – Robert Kienböck (1871-1953), Austrian radiologist. Described Kienböck disease (1910) and invented the Kienböck Quantimeter (1905)

1886 – Gabrielle Charlotte Lévy (1886-1934), French neurologist. Described Roussy-Lévy syndrome (1926) and Lhermitte-Lévy syndrome (1931)

1917 – Jess Bernard Weiss (1917-2007), American anesthesiologist; invented the Weiss epidural needle (1961)

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Deaths

1996 – Erik Sophus von Rosen (1898-1996), Swedish orthopaedic surgeon. Developed the von Rosen splint and, with radiologist Lars Andrén, the Andrén–von Rosen view for assessment of neonatal hip dislocation

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Further reading

• The “miracle” discovery that reversed the diabetes death sentence. NobelPrize.org