August 31 – On This Day in Medical History
Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with August 31.
Events
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Births
1821 – Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894), German physician; described Young–Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory of Colour Vision and invented the Ophthalmoscope (1850)
1841 – Edward Gamaliel Janeway (1841-1911), American physician; described the Janeway lesion (1899)
Deaths
1953 – Ralph Lee Huber (1889-1953), American Dentist; invented the Huber point needle (1943)
2023 – John Marius Opitz (1935-2023), German-American medical geneticist; described Opitz-Kaveggia syndrome (1974) [FG syndrome type 3], The N syndrome, Herrmann-Opitz syndrome (1969), Herrmann-Pallister syndrome, and more
Further reading
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