Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with October 11.

Events

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Births

1594 – Nicolaes Tulp (1594-1674), physician and magistrate of Amsterdam; described the pulsatile spleen (lien verberans) also know as Gerhardt sign (1882)

1889 – Paula Julie Elisabeth Hertwig (1889-1983), German biologist and geneticist; described Hertwig-Weyers syndrome (1942)

1933 – Leland Greene Hawkins (1933-1991), American orthopedic surgeon; described Hawkins Classification of Talus fractures (1970)

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Deaths

1967 – Arthur Bond Cecil (1885-1967), American surgeon and urologist; described Cole-Cecil murmur (1908), the Cecil operation (1946) and the Cecil-Culp Operation (1966)

1976 – Irving Freiler Stein (1887-1976), American gynaecologist; described Stein–Leventhal Syndrome (1934) [polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS)]

2007 – John Hilton Edwards (1928-2007), English physician; described Edwards syndrome [Trisomy 18] in 1960

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Further reading