October 7 – On This Day in Medical History
Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with October 7.
Events
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Births
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Deaths
1896 – John Langdon Haydon Langdon-Down (1828-1896); described Down syndrome (1866)
1911 – John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911), English neurologist; described Jacksonian march (1863), Jackson syndrome (1872), Jackson cerebellar syndrome (‘fits’), and Jackson’s Laws/Axioms
1939 – Harvey Williams Cushing (1869-1939), American neurosurgeon; described the Cushing Reflex (1901), Cushing’s Syndrome I (1912), Cushing’s Disease (1932), Neurath-Cushing Dyspituitarism (1912), Cushing’s Symphalangism (1915), Cushing’s Syndrome II (1917), and the Bailey-Cushing classification of gliomas (1926)…and so much more
Further reading
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