September 15 – On This Day in Medical History
Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with September 15.
Events
1884 – First public presentation of local anaesthesia. At the German Ophthalmological Society congress in Heidelberg, Josef Brettauer presented the preliminary communication and experiments of Carl Koller (1857-1944) and his discovery of cocaine as a local anaesthetic for the eye.
Births
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Deaths
1834 – Ernst Ludwig Heim (1747-1834), German physician; described Heim-Kreysig sign (1816)
Further reading
- Koller C. Vorläufiger Mitteilung über lokale Anästhesierung am Auges. Bericht über die 16. Versammlung der ophthalmologisrhen Gesellschaft. Heidelberg. Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde 1884; 22: 60-63
- Oeppen RS. Discovery of the first local anaesthetic–Carl Koller (1857-1944). Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2003 Aug;41(4):243
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