November 3 – On This Day in Medical History
Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with November 3.
Events
1906 – Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915) presented “Über eine eigenartige Erkrankung der Hirnrinde” (On a Peculiar Disease of the Cerebral Cortex) at the 37th Conference of South-West German Psychiatrists in Tübingen. The first public description of the Alzheimer disease
1927 – George Frederic Still (1868–1941) used the BMJ letters page to stage a nerdy (and very Greek) defence of pædiatrics. He argued the word should come from paides (children), not from unrelated Greek look-alikes—reviving a spelling debate that still refuses to die.
Births
1889 – Łucja Frey-Gottesman (1889-1942), Polish physician and neurologist; described Frey syndrome (1923)
Deaths
1933 – Pierre Paul Émile Roux (1853-1933), French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist. Collaborated with Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) and co-founder of the Pasteur Institute
Further reading
- Alzheimer A. Über eine eigenartige Erkrankung der Hirnrinde. Allgemeine Zeitschrift fur Psychiatrie und Psychisch-gerichtliche Medizin. 1907 Jan;64:146-8.
- Alzheimer A, Stelzmann RA, Schnitzlein HN, Murtagh FR. An English translation of Alzheimer’s 1907 paper, “Uber eine eigenartige Erkankung der Hirnrinde”. Clin Anat. 1995;8(6):429-31
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