Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with April 8.

Events

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Births

1817 – Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard (1817-1894), French physician and physiologist; described Brown-Séquard Syndrome (1850) and invented “The Elixir of Life” (Brown-Séquard Elixir)

1869 – Harvey Williams Cushing (1869-1939), American neurosurgeon; described the Cushing Reflex (1901), Cushing’s Syndrome I (1912), Cushing’s Disease (1932), Neurath-Cushing Dyspituitarism (1912), Cushing’s Symphalangism (1915), Cushing’s Syndrome II (1917), and the Bailey-Cushing classification of gliomas (1926)…and so much more

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Deaths

1866 – Benjamin Guy Babington (1794-1866), English physician; invented the Glottiscope (1829), provided an early description of Rendu-Osler-Weber disease and described Rubeola notha (bastard measles, later Rubella) in 1864

1918 – Ludwig Georg Courvoisier (1843-1918), Swiss surgeon; described Courvoisier Sign (1890)

1936 – Róbert Bárány (1876-1936), Austro-Hungarian otologist. Described Bárány bogengänge ohr (1907), the Bárány past pointing test (1906), Bárány caloric test (1906) and invented the Bárány chair (1907) and Bárány’s alarm apparatus (1908)

1951 – Arthur Sidney Blundell Bankart (1879-1951), British Orthopaedic surgeon; described the Bankart Lesion (1923) and Bankart Repair

1986 – George Kenneth Mallory (1900-1986), American pathologist; described Mallory–Weiss Lesion (1929)

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Further reading