Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with October 9.

Events

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Births

1883 – Ralph Milton Waters (1883-1979), American anesthesiologist; founder of the first academic program in anesthesiology, at the University of Wisconsin. Invented the Waters Airway (1930), Waters To-and-Fro Carbon Dioxide Absorption Canister (1923), and the Guedel-Waters Cuffed intratracheal tube (1928)

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Deaths

1562 – Gabriele Falloppio (1523-1562) , Italian priest, anatomist and clinician; described Fallopian tube (1562)

1968 – Joseph Gustav Asherman (1889-1968), Israeli obstetrician and gynaecologist; described Asherman Syndrome (1948)

1996 – Robert Andrew Hingson (1913-1996), American anesthesiologist. Developed of continuous caudal and epidural analgesia, the Hingson–Edwards malleable caudal needle (1943), Hingson Field Unit (1951), and Hingson Peace Gun for large-scale humanitarian vaccination programmes

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