December 22 – On This Day in Medical History

Medical milestones, landmark publications, and notable births and deaths associated with December 22.

Events

2010 – Police near Queenstown (Eastern Cape, South Africa) arrested a driver reported to have a blood alcohol concentration of 1.6 g/100 mL, around 32× South Africa’s legal limit (0.05 g/100 mL). A reminder that “impairment” is not a binary state

Births

No major medical milestones added for this date yet — this page is being expanded

Deaths

1788 – Sir Percivall Pott (1714-1788), English surgeon. Described Pott fracture (1768), Pott puffy tumour, Pott puffy tumour, Pott cancer and Pott disease

1911 – Odilon-Marc Lannelongue (1840-1911), French surgeon; introduced a surgical technique for the treatment of craniosynostosis and provided first description of Osgood-Schlatter disease (1878)

2021 – Owen Conor Ward (1923-2021), Irish paediatrician and cardiologist; described Romano-Ward Syndrome (1964)

Further reading
On This Day in Medical History

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