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

Events

1888 – William C. Dabney (1849-1894) published an account of a Charlottesville (Virginia) outbreak of epidemic pleurodynia (Bornholm disease), popularising the nickname “devil’s grip”, an acute, self-limited viral myositis causing severe chest/abdominal wall pain.

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Births

1906 – Robert Arden Miller (1906-1976), American anesthesiologist; designed the Miller laryngoscope blade (1941)

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Deaths

1855 – William Cumming (1822-1855), English ophthalmic surgeon; pivotal work in the early development of the ophthalmoscope

1976 – Sir John Parkinson (1885-1976), English cardiologist; described Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome (1930)

2020 – Tomisaku Kawasaki (1925-2020), Japanese pediatrician; described Kawasaki disease (1967)

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Further reading

• Dabney WC. Account of an Epidemic Resembling Dengue Which Occurred in and Around Charlottesville and the University of Virginia in June, 1888, American Journal of the Medical Sciences. 1888; 96: 488-494