Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with April 5.

Events

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Births

1821 – Adolphe-Marie Gubler (1821-1879), French physician; described Millard-Gubler syndrome (1856) and Gubler’s line

1891 – Frederic Eugene Basil Foley (1891-1966), American urologist. Invented the Foley catheter (1929); Foley Operation (1937) [Foley Y-plasty pyeloplasty], Foley artificial urethral sphincter (1947), Foley rotatable resectoscope (1949), and Foley hydraulic operating table (1950)

1912 – Ralph Douglas Kenneth Reye (1912-1977), Australian pathologist; described Reye Syndrome (1963)

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Deaths

1866 – Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866), English physician and pathologist; described Hodgkin Disease (1832), Key-Hodgkin Murmur (1827)

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