Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with November 27.

Events

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Births

1836 – Wilhelm Ebstein (1836-1912), Polish-German physician; described Ebstein anomoly (1866), and Pel-Ebstein fever (1885, 1887)

1838 – Carl Hueter (1838-1882), German Surgeon; described Hueter-Volkmann law (1862)

1857 – Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952), English neurophysiologist. Described Sherrington’s Laws (1897–1900), Liddell–Sherrington Reflex (1924), and Schiff–Sherrington Phenomenon. Coined the term “synapse” and proposed the integrative action of the nervous system; shared 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edgar Douglas Adrian (1889–1977) for discoveries regarding the functions of neurons.

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Deaths

1964 – Henry William Woltman (1889-1964), American neurologist; described Woltman’s Sign of Myxedema (1924); Kernohan-Woltman notch phenomenon (KWNP) (1928); and Stiff-Person Syndrome (Moersch–Woltman Syndrome)

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Further reading