January 30 – On This Day in Medical History

Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with January 30.

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Deaths

1860 Robert Bentley Todd (1809-1860) was an Irish physician; described Todd’s palsy (1849), differentiated locomotor ataxia (tabes dorsalis) from paraplegia and pioneered the Electrical Theory of Epilepsy (1849)

2020 Ann J. Johanson (1934-2020), American pediatric endocrinologist; described Johanson-Blizzard Syndrome (1971)


Further reading

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