Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with November 4.

Events

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Births

1722 – Josef Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg (1722-1809), Austrian Physician; father of percussion, described Auenbrugger Sign (1761), Auenbrugger sign II (1761), and Auenbrugger Bone Sign (Heuter sign)

1809 – Jacques Gilles Maisonneuve (1809-1897), French Surgeon; described Maisonneuve fracture (1840)

1825 – Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893), French neurologist and anatomopathologist; described Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (1886), Charcot disease (maladie de Charcot) (1868), Charcot-Weiss-Baker syndrome (1872), Charcot Triad (1879), and Erb-Charcot syndrome

1842 – Vincenz Czerny (1842-1916), Czech/Bohemian surgeon. Designed the Czerny pillar suture and Czerny operation. Performed the first vaginal total hysterectomy and introduced pyelolithotomy as a treatment for nephrolithiasis

1845 – Clement Dukes (1845-1925), English physician and dermatologist. In his 1900 Lancet article he proposed a fourth childhood exanthem (Dukes disease), clinically distinct from measles (first disease), scarlet fever (second disease), rubella (third disease).

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Deaths

1983 – Dame Ida Caroline Mann (1893-1983), English ophthalmologist. Described the Ida Mann classification of Coloboma (1937)

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Further reading

• Dukes C. On the confusion of two different diseases under the name of rubella (rose-rash). Lancet 1900; 156(4011): 89-95