May 27 – On This Day in Medical History
Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with May 27.
Events
No major medical milestones added for this date yet — this page is being expanded
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
Deaths
1842 – Thomas Spens (1763-1842), Scottish physician; published the first account in the English literature of Stokes-Adams syndrome
Further reading
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