June 30 – On This Day in Medical History

Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with June 30.

Events

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Births

1830Auguste Louis Jules Millard (1830-1915), French physician; described Millard-Gubler syndrome (1856)

1900Gordon David Oppenheimer (1900-1974), American surgeon and urologist; one of the three authors of the foundational 1932 description of regional ileitis, later named Crohn’s disease


Deaths

1974Douglas Theodore Prehn (1901-1974), American urologist; described Prehn’s sign (1934)


Further reading

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