Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with September 12.

Events

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Births

1860 – Rudolph Matas (1860-1957), American vascular surgeon. Described as the ‘Father of vascular surgery’

1910 – Mark Mitchell Ravitch (1910–1989), American surgeon. Described The Ravitch Procedure for chest wall deformities (1949) and non-operative management of intussusception (1948). He pre-empted Stigler’s Law of Eponymy with his 1979 publication “Dupuytren’s invention of the Mikulicz enterotome with a note on eponyms”

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Deaths

1674 – Nicolaes Tulp (1594-1674), physician and magistrate of Amsterdam; described the pulsatile spleen (lien verberans) also know as Gerhardt sign (1882)

1900 – Jacob Mendez Da Costa (1833-1900), American physician; described Da Costa Syndrome (1871), and Leuchonychia striata (1877)

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