Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with November 5.

Events

1929 – Werner Forßman (1904-1979) published Die Sondierung des rechten Herzens, a paper based upon controversial auto-experimentation of the catheterisation of the heart.

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Births

1729 – Carlo Mondini (1729-1803), Italian anatomist and physician; described Mondini deformity (1791)

1867 – Karl Maximilian Wilhelm ‘Max’ Wilms (1867-1918), German surgeon and pathologist. Producer of the monograph Die Mischgeschwülste der Niere (1899) and eponymously affiliated with Wilms Tumour (nephroblastoma)

1917 – John J Osborn (1917-2014), American intensivist, paediatrician and inventor; described the Osborn wave (1953)

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Deaths

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

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Further reading

• Pirogov NI. Questions of Life. Diary of an old physician 1879

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