Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with May 27.

Events

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Births

1818 – Franciscus Cornelis Donders (1818-1889), Dutch ophthalmologist; described Donders Law (1847), the Space of Donders (1867), Mental Chronometry (Donders Subtraction Method), and invented the Donders Ophthalmotrope (1845)

1870 – Pierre Le Damany (1870–1963), French physician; described Signe de Le Damany (1912)

1873 – Fernand Léon Cathelin (1873-1960), French urologist; described Cathelin’s method (Caudal epidural anaesthesia) (1901). Invented the Cystoscope à air and Diviseur vésical

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Deaths

1842 – Thomas Spens (1763-1842), Scottish physician; published the first account in the English literature of Stokes-Adams syndrome

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