September 10 – On This Day in Medical History
Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with September 10.
Events
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Births
1624 – Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689), English physician; described Sydenham’s chorea (1686)
1655 – Caspar Bartholin the Younger (1655-1738), Danish physician; described Bartholin glands (1677) and Bartholin duct (1677)
1863 – Josef Jadassohn (1863-1936), German dermatologist; described Patch Testing (“Jadassohn-Bloch Technique”) (1895), Jadassohn-Lewandowsky syndrome (pachyonychia congenita) (1906), épithélioma de Borst-Jadassohn (1926), Jadassohn-Tièche blue naevus, Jadassohn-Pellizzari anetoderma
1900 – Aubrey Otis Hampton (1900-1955), American Radiologist; described Hampton hump (1940) and Hampton line (1956)
1914 – Frederic Crosby Bartter (1914-1983), Filipino born American trained endocrinologist; described Bartter Syndrome (1962), Schwartz–Bartter syndrome (1957) (SIADH) as well as work with Mushroom Toxicity and Water Intoxication and Güllner Syndrome (Familial Hypokalaemic Alkalosis with Prostaglandin Excess)
Deaths
1730 – Joseph Guichard Duverney (1648-1730), French Anatomist and Surgeon; described the Duverney fracture
Further reading
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