Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with February 22.

Events

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Births

1822 – Adolph Kussmaul (Adolf Kußmaul) (1822-1902), German physician; described Kussmaul disease (1866) [polyarteritis nodosa], Kussmaul sign (1873), Kussmaul respiration (1874), and Kussmaul aphasia of psychoses (1877)

1852 – Pieter Klazes Pel (1852-1919), Dutch physician; described Pel-Ebstein fever (1885, 1887)

1876 – Sir Gordon Morgan Holmes (1876-1965), Irish neurologist; described Holmes-Adie syndrome (1931), Stewart-Holmes Sign (1904), Gordon Holmes syndrome (1908), Bálint-Holmes syndrome (1909, 1918), Head-Holmes syndrome (1911),

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Deaths

1877 – Fritz Valdemar Rasmussen (1837-1877), Danish physician; described Rasmussen aneurysm (1868)

1935 – Elmer Isaac “Ira” McKessen (1881-1935) was an inventor, physician and engineer. Designed the McKesson Intermittent (1910), McKesson Automated Nargraf (1930), McKesson Metabolor (1925), McKesson Metabolor Calculator (1934), and McKesson Oxygen tent

1967 – Theodore Ernst Obrig (1894–1967), American optician; pioneered cobalt-blue and fluorescein viewing (1938), for contact lens fitting and corneal surface assessment.

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Further reading