Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with October 14.

Events

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Births

1801 – Armand Trousseau (1801-1867), French Physician; described Trousseau sign (1861), Trousseau syndrome, and Trousseau spots

1873 – Rudolf Adriaan Mees (1873-1964), Dutch psychiatrist and physician; described Mees lines (1919)

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Deaths

1910 – Sydney Ringer (1835-1910), British clinician, physiologist and pharmacologist; developed Ringers Solution (1882)

1934 – Friedrich Schultze (1848-1934), German neurologist; described Schultze acroparesthesia (Schultze-Nothnagel syndrome), and Schultze test (Chvostek sign)

1971 – Claude Schaeffer Beck (1894-1971), American Cardiac Surgeon. Described Beck’s triad (1) acute cardiac compression triad, Beck’s triad (2) chronic cardiac compression triad and the Beck operation [cardiopericardiopexy]

1985 – Emilio (Emil) Anthony Naclerio (1915-1985), Italian-American Thoracic Surgeon; described Naclerio ‘V sign’ (1957)

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