Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with April 2.

Events

1928 – A young man was referred to Paul Dudley White (1886-1973) because his physician was perplexed by the occurrence of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in a healthy individual. White was preparing for visits to overseas and took the ECGs with him. In London, John Parkinson (1885-1976) was interested and found seven similar cases to add to what would be described as Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome (1930)

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Births

1875 – Henry Edmund Gaskin Boyle (1875-1941), Barbadian/British anaesthetist; designed the Boyle Intratracheal ether apparatus (1912), Boyle machine (1919), and Boyle-Davis Gag (1922)

1922 – John (Jack) Handyside Barnes (1922-1985), Australian medical practitioner and toxinologist; described Carukia barnesi and the Irukandji Syndrome (1961)

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Deaths

1742– James Douglas (1675–1742), Scottish anatomist and obstetrician; described the Pouch of Douglas (1730), and Line of Douglas. Infamously involved in the Curious Case of Mary Toft

1926 – Carl Oscar Alexander von Kobyliński (1856-1926), Polish-Baltic German general practitioner; described first documented case of Noonan syndrome (1883)

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Further reading

• Cadogan M. Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome LITFL