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

Events

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Births

1877 – George Grey Turner (1877-1951), English surgeon; described Grey Turner sign (1919), and Transhiatul oesophagectomy (1933)

1880 – William Edwards Ladd (1880-1967), American paediatric surgeon; described Ladd bands (1932), Ladd’s syndrome (1932), and Ladd’s operation (1930)

1934 – Joseph Schatzker, Canadian Orthopaedic Surgeon; described the Schatzker classification of tibial plateau fractures (1979)

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Deaths

1894 – Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894), German physician; described Young–Helmholtz Trichromatic Theory of Colour Vision and invented the Ophthalmoscope (1850)

1958 – Wilhelm Lutz (1888-1958), Swiss dermatologist; described Lewandowsky-Lutz dysplasia (1922), Lutz-Miescher syndrome (elastosis perforans serpiginosa) (1953), Lutz sign (Asboe-Hansen sign)(1957)

1988 – Gunnar Wiberg (1902–1988), Swedish orthopaedic surgeon. Introduced the centre-edge angle of Wiberg in 1939 for the assessment of lateral acetabular coverage

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Further reading