Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with April 29.

Events

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Births

1933 – Pirkko Santavuori (1933-2004), Finnish paediatric neurologist; described Santavuori disease (1973), and Muscle–Eye–Brain (MEB) disease (1977)

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Deaths

1842 – Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842), Scottish anatomist, physiologist, neurologist and surgeon; described Bell’s palsy (1827), Bell Phenomenon, and the Law of Bell-Magendie

1908 – Charles John Aldrich (1861-1908), American neurologist; described ‘Leuconychia striata arsenicalis transversus‘ (1904) later called Mees Lines (1919)

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