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

Events

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Births

1833 – Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt (1833-1902), German physician; described Gerhardt Law (1863), Gerhardt sign (1882), and the Gerhardt reaction (1865)

1860 – Walter Essex Wynter (1860-1945), English physician; described paracentesis of the theca vertebralis to permit continuous CSF drainage

1881 – Hakaru Hashimoto 橋本 策 (1881-1934), Japanese physician; described Hashimoto Thyroiditis (1912)

1910 – Margaret Doreen Baber (1910-1997), Welsh paediatrician; described Baber syndrome (1956)

1939 – Greta Janet Beighton (1939-2017), English nurse and genetic researcher; described the Beighton Score (1971)

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Deaths

1981 – James Watson Kernohan (1896-1981), Northern Irish born, American neuropathologist; described Kernohan-Woltman notch phenomenon (KWNP) (1928), and Kernohan’s Notch (Motor, Cerebral), and (Optic)

1983 – Frederic Crosby Bartter (1914-1983), Filipino born American trained endocrinologist; described Bartter Syndrome (1962), Schwartz–Bartter syndrome (1957) (SIADH) as well as work with Mushroom Toxicity and Water Intoxication and Güllner Syndrome (Familial Hypokalaemic Alkalosis with Prostaglandin Excess)

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