Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with July 8.

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Births

1766 – Dominique-Jean Larrey (1766-1842), French military surgeon. Defined flying ambulances and triage as well as cold injury and therapeutic hypothermia

1857 – John Templeton Bowen (1857-1940), American dermatologist. Described Bowen’s disease (1912), Bowenoid papulosis (BP) and Bowen’s disease of the penis (BDP)

1888 – James Frederick Brailsford (1888-1961), eminent British Radiologist; described Morquio-Brailsford syndrome (1929) and Brailsford disease (1939)

1903 – José Luis Bado (1903-1977), Uruguayan surgeon; described Bado Classification (1958) of Monteggia fractures

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Deaths

1916 – Friedrich Carl Ferdinand Busch (1844-1916), German surgeon and dentist; described Busch-Hoffa fracture (1869)

1939 – Arthur Thornton Legg (1874-1939), American orthopedic surgeon; described Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD); (1910)

1971 – Michael Leo Leventhal (1901-1971), American gyecologist; described Stein–Leventhal Syndrome (1934) [polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS)]

2008 – Oral Bascom Crawford Jr (1921-2008), American anesthesiologist; invented the Crawford Needle (1951)

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