Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with July 2.

Events

1787 – David Bayford (1739-1790) first presented his account of dysphagia lusoria, describing chronic dysphagia caused by compression of the oesophagus from an aberrant right subclavian artery (ARSA). The anatomical explanation was derived from post-mortem examination of a woman who had died after years of “obstructed deglutition.”

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Births

1746 – François Chaussier (1746-1828), French physician; designed the Le tube laryngien de Chaussier (1806)

1857– Sir Frederic William Hewitt (1857-1916), English anaesthetist; inventor of the Hewitt airway (1908)

1862 – Sir William Henry Bragg (1862–1942), English physicist, mathematician, and chemist. Invented the Bragg-Paul Pulsator, Bragg X-ray spectrometer (1910)

1942 – Archie Ian Jeremy Brain, British anaesthetist; designed the Laryngeal mask airway (1983)

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Deaths

1951 – Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875-1951), German thoracic surgeon. Invented the Sauerbruch Chamber, Sauerbruch hand, and described the Sauerbruch grip

2014 – Louis Arnold Gilula (1942-2014), American radiologist; described Gilula carpal arcs in 1979

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Further reading

• Bayford D. An account on a singular case of obstructed deglutition. Memoirs of the Medical Society of London, 1794; 2: 271-282. [ARTICLE XXIV first read July 2, 1787]
• Asherson N. David Bayford. His syndrome and sign of dysphagia lusoria. Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 1979 Jan; 61(1): 63–67