14 October — On this day in medicine

Birth

14 October 1801

Birth of Armand Trousseau

Photograph of the historical reading room of the Harvey Cushing Medical Library, 2024. — Harvey Cushing Historical Medical Library, photographed in 2024. Contextual heritage view, not an image of the reported event.
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Armand Trousseau was born in Tours on 14 October 1801. A physician and clinical teacher, he gave his name to several signs and syndromes. This date marks his birth, not the description of those observations.

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Birth

14 October 1873

Birth of Rudolf Adriaan Mees

Archival photograph of the New York Foundling Hospital operating room circa 1899. — Operating room in New York, circa 1899. Contextual archival photograph, not the event described.
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Dutch physician and psychiatrist Rudolf Adriaan Mees was born on 14 October 1873 in Deventer. His name is associated with transverse white nail bands described in his observations of arsenic poisoning, published in 1919.

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Death

14 October 1910

Death of Sydney Ringer

Photograph of a historical electrocardiograph and two operators, London, 1922. — Electrocardiograph at the National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart, London, 1922. Contextual archive photograph.
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Sydney Ringer died on 14 October 1910. The British clinician, physiologist and pharmacologist studied the effects of mineral salts on the heart. The solution named after him belongs to that experimental history; its formulation predates his death.

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Historical archives

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