Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with October 15.

Events

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Births

1859 – Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke (1859-1927), American neurologist; described Klumpke palsy (1885)

1874 – Edwin Allen Locke (1874-1971), American Physician; described the Cabot-Locke murmur (1903)

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Deaths

1941 – Henry Edmund Gaskin Boyle (1875-1941), Barbadian/British anaesthetist; designed the Boyle Intratracheal ether apparatus (1912), Boyle machine (1919), and Boyle-Davis Gag (1922)

1997 – MacDonald Critchley (1900-1997), English neurologist; described Adie-Critchley syndrome (1927). Influential neurological writer with books including The Divine Banquet of the Brain and The Citadel of the Senses, The Parietal Lobes, and Music and the Brain

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Further reading