Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with May 31.

Events

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Births

1889 – Woldemar Mobitz (1889-1951), German physician. Mobitz applied a mathematical and graphical approach to cardiac arrhythmias [Mobitz type I (Wenckebach)], [Mobitz type II (Hay)]

1898 – Louise Littig Sloan (1898-1982, American ophthalmologist. Designed the Sloan Test (1946), and the Sloan Optotypes and the Standardisation of Visual Acuity Testing (1952)

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Deaths

1907 – Moritz Litten (1845-1907), German physician; described Litten spot (Roth spots)

1910 – Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), English physician; first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States, and second female physician on the Medical Register of the UK General Medical Council (after Elizabeth Garrett Anderson)

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