Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with March 10.

Events

1975 – World in Action spent 24 hours at the Royal Southern Hospital casualty department, Liverpool. A time capsule of medical history – the ‘Blood and Guts shift‘. Enlightening to see how the advent of technology (…and gloves) has changed the appearance, organisation, structure and function of the emergency department…

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Births

1853 – Karel Maydl (1853-1903), Czech surgeon; described Maydl’s hernia (1898), Maydl’s Operation [Colostomy] (1883), and Maydl’s Method

1918 – Nikolay Dmitriyevich Sheklakov (1918-1989), medical mycologist and dermatologist; described the Sheklakov sign of perifocal subepidermal separation (“false Nikolskiy sign”)

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Deaths

1907 – Arthur Ernest Sansom (1838-1907), English physician; described Sansom sign I (1895), Sansom sign II (1892). Designed the Sansom binaural (double) stethoscope (1891) and Sansom pleximeter (1891)

1954 – Jacques Calvé (1875-1954), French orthopaedic surgeon; described Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD); (1910)

1977 – André Strohl (1887-1977), French physician; described and original (forgotten) author of Guillain-Barré syndrome (1916)

2005 – Charles Rufus Baxter (1929-2005), American physician; introduced the Parkland Formula for Burns (1968)

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Further reading