Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with January 28.

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Births

1830 – Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring (1755-1830), Prussian polymathic physician. Credited with the naming the 12 pairs of cranial nerves in his graduation thesis (1788), discovering and illustrating the macula lutea (yellow spot) in the human retina (1791)

1823 – Karl Stellwag von Carion (1823-1904), Austrian ophthalmologist; described Stellwag Sign (1869)

1879 – Julia Bell (1879-1979), English human geneticist; described Martin-Bell syndrome (1943) – aka Fragile X Syndrome

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Deaths

1929 – Jean-Athanase Sicard (1872-1929), French physician. Described Sicard’s method (1901) an epidural injection technique in which medication is introduced into the epidural space via the sacral canal

1950 – Cornelia Catharina de Lange (1871-1950), Dutch paediatrician; described Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) (1933)

1958 – Johannes Jacobus Zoon (1902-1958), Dutch dermatologist; described Balanitis von Zoon (1952)

1961 – James Frederick Brailsford (1888-1961), eminent British Radiologist; described Morquio-Brailsford syndrome (1929) and Brailsford disease (1939)

1972 – Louis Wolff (1898-1972), American cardiologist; described Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome (1930)

1976 – Niels Lauge-Hansen (1899-1976), Danish Radiologist; defined Lauge-Hansen classification of ankle fractures (1950)

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