Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with September 25.

Events

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Births

1853 – Frederick Forchheimer (1853-1913), American pediatrician; described Forchheimer spots (1898)

1897 – Achille Mario Dogliotti (1897-1966), Italian surgeon; defined Dogliotti’s principle in neuraxial blockade (1931), developed chemical neurolysis for intractible pain, and performed the first successful human operation using total extracorporeal blood circulation.

1915 – Thomas Geoffrey Barlow (1915-1975), English Orthopaedic surgeon; described the Barlow maneuver (Barlow test) (1961)

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Deaths

1877 – Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich (1815-1877), German physician; described Wunderlich syndrome (1856), Wunderlich law (1868), and clinical thermometry (1868)

1979 – Werner Theodore Otto Forßman (1904-1979), German physician, Nobel Laureate and a pioneer of interventional cardiology.

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Further reading