Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with October 10.

Events

1929 – SICOT (Société Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopédique et de Traumatologie) was founded at the Hôtel Crillon, Paris, when an international group of orthopaedic surgeons met to establish a global society for orthopaedic surgery. Fred H. Albee and Vittorio Putti were central to the process with founding attendees drawn from Austria, Belgium, Spain, the United States, France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Holland, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland and Czechoslovakia.

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Births

1780 – John Abercrombie (1780-1844), Scottish physician; provided early descriptions of Crohn’s disease and perforated duodenal ulcer

1826 – Jean-Baptiste Octave Landry de Thézillat (1826-1865), French physician and neurologist. Provided the original description of Guillain–Barré syndrome (1859) as Landry ascending paralysis

1853 – James Rutherford Morison (1853-1939), English surgeon. Described the Pouch of Rutherford Morison (1894) and BIPP: Bismuth, iodoform and paraffin paste (1916)

1926 – William Angelo Zavanelli, American obstetrician and gynaecologist; described the Zavanelli Manoeuvre (1978)

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Deaths

1969 – William (Wilhelm) Dressler (1890-1969), Austrian-American cardiologist. Described the Dressler beat (1952) and Dressler syndrome (1956)

1979 – Guido Fanconi (1892–1979), Swiss paediatrician; described Fanconi anaemia (1927).

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Further reading

• Sorbie C. The known history of the origins of SICOT. SICOT

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