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

Events

2008 – Global Handwashing Day was launched by the Global Public–Private Partnership for Handwashing (PPPHW), later renamed the Global Handwashing Partnership, to promote handwashing with soap as a simple, effective, low-cost way to prevent infection and save lives.

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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

• Moniz E. Essai d’un traitement chirurgical de certaines psychoses. Bulletin de l’Académie de Médecine (Paris) 1936; 115: 385- 392
• Moniz E, Lima A. Premier essais de psychochirurgia technique et resultats. Lisboa Medica, 1936; 38: 725-752.
• Moniz E. 1954. How I succeeded in performing the prefrontal leucotomy. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Psychopathology, 1954; 15: 373-379.
• Tan SY, Yip A. António Egas Moniz (1874-1955): Lobotomy pioneer and Nobel laureate. Singapore Med J. 2014 Apr;55(4):175-6
• Global Handwashing Day, History