Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with November 13.

Events

1889 – Charles Heber McBurney (1845–1913) presented Experience with early operative interference in cases of disease of the vermiform appendix before the New York Surgical Society. In describing the clinical diagnosis of appendicitis, McBurney identified the localised point of greatest tenderness near the base of the appendix “from one and a half to two inches” from the right anterior superior iliac spine on a line to the umbilicus. This became known as McBurney point

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Births

1874 – Adrien Albert Athanase Baneux (1874-1931), French medical caricaturist under the pseudonym Adrien Barrère. Produced a series of lithographs of the Professors in the Faculties of Medicine (4) and the Law (2) in 1904

1908 – Maurice Lev (1908-1994), American cardiologist. Described Lenègre-Lev syndrome (1964), Lev’s Disease and the Aging Conduction System

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Deaths

1813 – James Marion Sims (1813-1883), American surgeon; decribed the Sims position, and invented the Sims Speculum and Sims Sigmoid Catheter

1915 – Auguste Louis Jules Millard (1830-1915), French physician; described Millard-Gubler syndrome (1856)

1955 – Arthur Hale Curtis (1881-1955), American football player, coach, and gynecologist; described Fitz-Hugh Curtis syndrome (1930)

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Further reading

• McBurney C. Experience with early operative interference in cases of disease of the vermiform appendix. New York Medical Journal, 1889; 50: 676-684.