Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with August 28.

Events

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Births

1828 – William Alexander Hammond (1828-1900), American neurologist, military physician, surgeon and naturalist. Described Hammond disease (athetosis)

1855 – James Leonard Corning (1855-1923), American neurologist; credited with performing the first recorded spinal anaesthetic.

1878 – George Hoyt Whipple (1878-1976), American physician; described Whipple disease (1907) and coined the term thalassemia (1932

1880 – Robert Danis (1880-1962), Belgian general surgeon; described Danis-Weber ankle fracture classification (Danis 1949; Weber 1972)

1919 – Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield (1919-2004), English electrical engineer; inventor of computerised tomography (CT) for which he shared the Nobel prize in 1979; Hounsfield unit (HU)

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Deaths

1964 – Pablo Luis Mirizzi (1893-1964), Argentinian surgeon. Invented Mirizzigraphy in 1932 and described Mirizzi Sign (1942), Mirizzi Syndrome (1948)

1989 – Sir Robert Reynolds Macintosh (1897-1989), New Zealand Anaesthetist. Inventor of the Macintosh Laryngoscope (1943), Gum elastic bougie (1949), and Light wand (1957)

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Further reading

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