Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with February 3.

Events

1910 – Sir Harold Stiles (1863–1946) performed the first recorded pylorotomy for pyloric stenosis at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh. Although he did not publish the case, the Operation Note remains.

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Births

1777– John Cheyne (1777-1836), Scottish surgeon and physician; described Cheyne-Stokes Respiration (1818); published on the pupil in head injury and Subarachnoid Haemorrhage (1812)

1799 – William Peter Hort (1799-1852), English born, American physician;  first published use of charcoal as an antidote, in America

1803 – Jean-Gaspard Blaise Goyrand (1803-1866), French surgeon; described Goyrand Fracture (1832)

1805 – Charles James Blasius Williams (1805-1889), British physician; described Williams sign of adherent pericarditis (1840)

1821 – Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), English physician; first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States, and second female physician on the Medical Register of the UK General Medical Council (after Elizabeth Garrett Anderson)

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Deaths

1726 – Alexis Littré (1654-1726), French anatomist and surgeon; described Littré’s Hernia (1700), Littré’s Glands, Littritis, and Littré’s Operation (1710)

1883 – Vincenz Alexander Bohdalek (1801–1883), Czech anatomist and pathologist. Described Bochdalek foramen (lumbocostal triangle, foramen Bochdaleki) (1848). Bochdalek hernia (1848) and Bochdalek’s flower basket (Blumenkörbchen Bochdaleks)

1892 – Sir Morell Mackenzie (1837-1892), English otorhinolaryngologist; provided early description of Barrett’s oesophagus (1884). Founded the first dedicated laryngological hospital in the world, the Metropolitan Free Dispensary for Diseases of the Throat and Loss of Voice (1863)

1915 – Julius Arnold (1835-1915), German pathologist; described Arnold–Chiari malformation (1894) and Friedrich-Erb-Arnold syndrome 

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Further reading