On 25 October 1993, Averil Mansfield became the first woman appointed professor of surgery in the United Kingdom, a landmark for women in academic surgery.
William Russ Pugh was born on 25 October 1806. The English surgeon and anaesthetist later devised Pugh’s inhaler in 1846 for administering early anaesthetic agents.
Leo George Rigler died on 25 October 1979. The American radiologist described several imaging findings, including Rigler’s sign and Rigler’s triad in 1941.