Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with December 19.

Events

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Births

1922 – W. Robert Harris (1922-2005), Canadian Orthopaedic Surgeon; described Salter-Harris Classification (1963)

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Deaths

1977 – José Luis Bado (1903-1977), Uruguayan surgeon; described Bado Classification (1958) of Monteggia fractures

1979 – Ralph Milton Waters (1883-1979), American anesthesiologist; founder of the first academic program in anesthesiology, at the University of Wisconsin. Invented the Waters Airway (1930), Waters To-and-Fro Carbon Dioxide Absorption Canister (1923), and the Guedel-Waters Cuffed intratracheal tube (1928)

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