Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with October 7.

Events

1915 — Jules Tinel (1879–1952) published Le signe du ‘fourmillement’ dans les lésions des nerfs périphériques. He described how pressure over an injured peripheral nerve could produce non-painful tingling or “formication” projected distally into the nerve’s cutaneous territory. Findings later adapted clinically as the Hoffmann–Tinel sign in the assessment of median nerve irritation in carpal tunnel syndrome.

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Births

No major medical milestones added for this date yet — this page is being expanded

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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

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Further reading

• Tinel J. Le signe du ‘fourmillement’ dans les lésions des nerfs périphériques. La Presse Médicale. 1915; 47: 388–389 [Translation: Kaplan EB The “tingling” sign in peripheral nerve lesions. 1972:8-13.[PDF]]