Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with December 16.

Events

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Births

1842 – Anton Julius Friedrich Rosenbach (1842-1923), German physician; described Rosenbach disease (1887)

1844 – Alix Joffroy (1844-1908), French neurologist and psychiatrist; described Joffroy sign (1893)

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Deaths

1888 – Wilhelm Roser (1817-1888), German surgeon; described Roser-Nélaton line (1847)

1900 – Priscilla White (1900-1989), American physician; described the White Classification of Diabetes in Pregnancy (1949)

1949 – Silvio Rolando da Carasco (1873-1949), Italian general surgeon; described the Rolando Fracture (1910)

1975 – Eugen Bogdan Aburel (1899-1975), Romanian obstetrician and gynecologic surgeon; proposed a dual-pathway model of uterine pain transmission (1930 and development the first continuous epidural analgesia for labour pain (1931)

2014 – Yvonne Edna Cossart (1934-2014), Australian virologist; described Parvovirus B19 (1975)

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Further reading